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
Limitations
*.mp3 MPEG MPEG-1 Audio Layer III -
*.m4a
*.mpa
*.aac

 MPEG-4 AAC
*.flac FLAC FLAC
*.ogg OGG Vorbis
*.wma WMA WMA
  • Up to WMA 10 Pro 5.1 channel supported
  • WMA lossless audio not supported
  • M2 profile supported
*.wav WAV WAV -
*.mid
*.midi

 MIDI MIDI
  • Type 0 and Type 1 supported
  • USB mode supported
  • SeekOnly not supported
*.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
Limitations
*.jpg
*.jpeg

 JPEG 16320x12240
(Since Tizen 7.0)

 -
15360x9024
(Tizen 4.0 ~ Tizen 6.5)
15360x8640
(Up to Tizen 3.0)
*.png PNG 4096x4096
*.bmp BMP
*.mpo MPO 15360x8640
  • The MPO format is partially supported.
*.heic HEIF (Since Tizen 6.0)

 16320x12240
(Since Tizen 7.0)
  • HEIF supports only a single, grid-type image with a minimum resolution of at least 512 pixels in width or height.
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
Tizen 8.0
(2024)

 WebM (VP9/4K/60fps/80Mbps)

 W3C Recommendation 17-Nov-2016

 W3C Recommendation 18-Sept-2017

 v4.5 (SL3000)
v2.5 (SL2000)

 v17.1
Tizen 7.0
(2023)

 v4.5 (SL3000)
v2.5 (SL2000)

 v17.1
Tizen 6.5
(2022)

 v4.4 (SL3000)
v2.5 (SL2000)

 v16.4
Tizen 6.0
(2021)

 v4.2 (SL3000)
v2.5 (SL2000)

 v16.3
Tizen 5.5
(2020)

 v15.2
Tizen 5.0
(2019)

 v3.3 (SL3000)
v2.5 (SL2000)

 v14.1
Tizen 4.0
(2018)

 W3C Candidate Recommendation 05-Jul-2016

 W3C Candidate Recommendation 05-Jul-2016

 v3.2
Tizen 3.0
(2017)

 W3C Candidate Recommendation 12-Nov-2015

 W3C Workig Draft 04-Feb-2016

 v2.5 (SL2000)

 v2.08
Tizen 2.4
(2016)

 WebM (VP9/4K/60fps/60Mbps)

 W3C Editor's Draft 10-Dec-2013

 0.1b
Tizen 2.3
(2015)

 WebM (VP9/4K/60fps/20Mbps)

Table 3. MSE and EME supported specifications