Advanced Professional Video (APV) developed by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., is a royalty-free video codec designed for professional-level high-quality video recording and post production. It has been proposed to IETF and is supported across a variety of devices.
The Advanced Professional Video (APV) codec is defined as an intraâÂÂframe, visually lossless compression format intended for professional recording, editing, and mastering. It encodes each frame independently using blockâÂÂbased transforms and lightweight entropy coding, avoiding interâÂÂframe prediction to ensure low latency and predictable performance in postâÂÂproduction workflows. The design emphasizes perceptual fidelity close to uncompressed video, with support for high bitâÂÂrates 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 10âÂÂbit and 12âÂÂbit operation, with compatibility for wideâÂÂgamut and highâÂÂdynamicâÂÂrange color spaces. A tileâÂÂbased frame structure enables parallel encoding and decoding, improving throughput for immersive content and multiâÂÂcore processing environments. The intraâÂÂonly design allows multiple reâÂÂencoding cycles with minimal cumulative degradation, while localized coding boundaries provide resilience against error propagation.