These guidelines are recommendations to achieve the best performance from a media player.
These are general recommendations and not limitations. Performance isn't guaranteed and limitations will depend on the devices specification, please refer to manufacturer documentation.
Video
- MPEG-4 H.264/AVC (.mp4)
- WebM VP9 (.webm)
- Frame rate: 30 fps
- Bitrate (constant): 10 Mbps (75/Mb/minute)
- Maximum bitrate (constant): 20 Mbps (150Mb/minute)
- Profile: H.264 baseline profile video and AAC low-complexity profile audio.
Image
- JPEG (.jpg, .jpeg)
- PNG (.png)
- WebP (.webp)
- Maximum resolution: 4K - 3840x2160 or 2160x3840
- Color options: 24-bit RGB or 32-bit RGBA
Device Limitations
Samsung
- General Specifications - https://developer.samsung.com/smarttv/develop/specifications/general-specifications.html?device=signage
- Media Specifications - https://developer.samsung.com/smarttv/develop/specifications/media-specifications.html?device=signage
- Video Specifications - https://developer.samsung.com/smarttv/develop/specifications/media-specifications/signage-video-specifications.html?device=signage
- Web Engine Specifications - https://developer.samsung.com/smarttv/develop/specifications/web-engine-specifications.html?device=signage
- Some Tizen TEP APIs for specific privileges functionalities are unavailable at the public level, e.g. http://tizen.org/privilege/tv.audio.
4K video is currently unsupported on Samsung SoC due to manufacturer video decoder limitations.
BrightSign
- Supported Video Formats and Codecs - https://brightsign.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/DOC/pages/2396356609/Supported+Video+Formats+and+Codecs
- Supported Video Modes - https://brightsign.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/DOC/pages/370676833/Supported+Video+Modes
- Optimizing Video Quality - https://brightsign.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/DOC/pages/370673630/Optimizing+Video+Quality
- 4K Video Quality Overview - https://brightsign.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/DOC/pages/370673602/4K+Video+Quality+Overview
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Sony and Philips Android
- Transitions between content is not always fully gapless. This is caused when there is low hardware performance resource available.
- UHD content requires more hardware performance resource meaning video frame rate and general playout performance can be impacted.