Advanced Professional Video
| Advanced Professional Video | |
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| Abbreviation | APV |
| Organization | Samsung Electronics |
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| Domain | Video compression |
| Website | www |
Samsung's Advanced Professional Video (APV) is a royalty-free video codec made by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd to be used for professional-level high-quality video recording and post production.
Features
[edit]- Perceptually lossless video quality that is close to the original, uncompressed quality
- Low complexity and high throughput intra frame only coding without pixel domain prediction[1]
- Real-time encoding and decoding at resolutions up to 8K
- Designed as an intermediate codec for video editing, not for content distribution.[2]
- Optimized for parallel processing on multi-core CPUs and GPUs
- High-quality chroma subsampling (4:0:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4, and 4:4:4:4).[1]
- Bit depths ranging from 10 to 16.[1]
- High bit-rates up to a few Gbps for 2K, 4K and 8K resolution content, enabled by a lightweight entropy coding scheme[1]
- Frame tiling for immersive content and for enabling parallel encoding and decoding
- Multiple decoding and re-encoding without severe visual quality degradation
- Various metadata including HDR10/10+ and user-defined format
Technical specification
[edit]The Advanced Professional Video (APV) codec is defined as an intraâframe, visually lossless compression format intended for professional recording, editing, and mastering. It encodes each frame independently using blockâbased transforms and lightweight entropy coding, avoiding interâframe prediction to ensure low latency and predictable performance in postâproduction workflows. The design emphasizes perceptual fidelity close to uncompressed video, with support for high bitârates up to several gigabits per second at 2K, 4K, and 8K resolutions. APV accommodates chroma subsampling formats from 4:0:0 through 4:4:4:4, including alpha channel support, and bit depths from 10 to 16 bits per component. Profiles are currently defined for 10âbit and 12âbit operation, with compatibility for wideâgamut and highâdynamicârange color spaces. A tileâbased frame structure enables parallel encoding and decoding, improving throughput for immersive content and multiâcore processing environments. The intraâonly design allows multiple reâencoding cycles with minimal cumulative degradation, while localized coding boundaries provide resilience against error propagation.
Adoption and implementations
[edit]Reference implementation
[edit]- OpenAPV[3]
Adoption
[edit]- Android 16[4]
- Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve[5]
- FFmpeg[6]
- Blackmagic Design Camera for Android[7]
- Integrated into Samsung Galaxy flagship devices starting with Galaxy S26.
- Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
- calibrated software Tin Man [8]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c d Lim, Youngkwon; Park, Minwoo; Budagavi, Madhukar; Joshi, Rajan; Choi, Kwang Pyo. Advance Professional Video (Report). Internet Engineering Task Force.
- ^ Samsung Electronics. "Introducing APV: A Next-Generation Video Codec." Samsung Developer Conference, 2023.
- ^ openapv on GitHub
- ^ "Features and APIs". Android Developers. Archived from the original on 2025-09-17. Retrieved 2025-09-19.
- ^ "Release of DaVinci Resolve 20.2". Blackmagic Forum. Archived from the original on 2025-09-19. Retrieved 2025-09-19.
- ^ Michael Larabel. "FFmpeg Integrates Video Encoder For Advanced Professional Video (APV)". Phoronix. Archived from the original on 2025-08-29. Retrieved 2025-09-19.
- ^ "Blackmagic Design Camera for Android Tech Specs". Blackmagic Design. Archived from the original on 2025-09-19. Retrieved 2025-09-19.
- ^ "calibrated software Tin Man".