Media Specifications
Samsung devices have rich media playback capabilities, including support for various media extensions, using the available audio and video decoders. This topic describes the media formats supported by Samsung Smart devices, and the limitations on their support.
Music
The following table lists the supported audio formats.
File Extension | Format | Codec | |
---|---|---|---|
*.mp3 | MPEG | MPEG-1 Audio Layer III | - |
*.m4a *.mpa *.aac |
MPEG-4 | AAC | |
*.flac | FLAC | FLAC | |
*.ogg | OGG | Vorbis | |
*.wma | WMA | WMA |
|
*.wav | WAV | WAV | - |
*.mid *.midi |
MIDI | MIDI |
|
*.ape | APE | APE | - |
*.aif *.aiff |
AIFF | AIFF | |
*.m4a | ALAC | ALAC |
Table 1. Music specifications
Picture
The following table lists the supported image formats.
File Extension | Format | Resolution | |
---|---|---|---|
*.jpg *.jpeg |
JPEG | 16320x12240 (Since Tizen 7.0) |
- |
15360x9024 |
|||
15360x8640 (Up to Tizen 3.0) |
|||
*.png | PNG | 4096x4096 | |
*.bmp | BMP | ||
*.mpo | MPO | 15360x8640 |
|
*.heic | HEIF (Since Tizen 6.0) | 16320x12240 (Since Tizen 7.0) |
|
12000x9000 (Tizen 6.0 ~ Tizen 6.5) |
Table 2. Picture specifications
Video
The suppoted video formats vary by device type, model year, and model group:
MSE/EME Specifications
Samsung devices support the W3C Media Source Extensions™ (MSE) and Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) specifications. For detailed information about MSE and EME, see the W3C specification documents:
The following table lists the supported W3C MSE and EME specification versions. These extensions allow you to use JavaScript to generate media streams for playback, and play DRM-enabled content without any third-party plugins.
Platform | MSE | EME | DRM | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
PlayReady | Widevine Modular | ||||
(2024) |
WebM (VP9/4K/60fps/80Mbps) | W3C Recommendation 17-Nov-2016 | W3C Recommendation 18-Sept-2017 | v2.5 (SL2000) |
v17.1 |
(2023) |
v2.5 (SL2000) |
v17.1 | |||
(2022) |
v2.5 (SL2000) |
v16.4 | |||
(2021) |
v2.5 (SL2000) |
v16.3 | |||
(2020) |
v15.2 | ||||
(2019) |
v2.5 (SL2000) |
v14.1 | |||
(2018) |
W3C Candidate Recommendation 05-Jul-2016 | W3C Candidate Recommendation 05-Jul-2016 | v3.2 | ||
(2017) |
W3C Candidate Recommendation 12-Nov-2015 | W3C Workig Draft 04-Feb-2016 | v2.08 | ||
(2016) |
WebM (VP9/4K/60fps/60Mbps) | W3C Editor's Draft 10-Dec-2013 | 0.1b | ||
(2015) |
WebM (VP9/4K/60fps/20Mbps) |
Table 3. MSE and EME supported specifications
- Samsung supports Widevine Modular since Tizen 2.4.
- The W3C EME 0.1b draft specification was unpublished from the W3C web site. Refer to the W3C First Public Working Draft 10 May 2013 instead.