| 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.
The Advanced Professional Video (APV) codec is defined as an intra‑frame, visually lossless compression format intended for professional recording, editing, and mastering. It encodes each frame independently using block‑based transforms and lightweight entropy coding, avoiding inter‑frame prediction to ensure low latency and predictable performance in post‑production workflows. The design emphasizes perceptual fidelity close to uncompressed video, with support for high bit‑rates 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 10‑bit and 12‑bit operation, with compatibility for wide‑gamut and high‑dynamic‑range color spaces. A tile‑based frame structure enables parallel encoding and decoding, improving throughput for immersive content and multi‑core processing environments. The intra‑only design allows multiple re‑encoding cycles with minimal cumulative degradation, while localized coding boundaries provide resilience against error propagation.