| Advanced Professional Video | |
|---|---|
| Abbreviation | APV |
| Year started | 6 October 2023 |
| Latest version | 1.1.3.0 October 11, 2026 |
| Organization | Academy Software Foundation |
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| Base standards | RFC 9924 |
| Domain | Video compression |
| Website | github |
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.
In 2023, Samsung Developer Conference was introduced the first APV lossless video quality up to 20%.
October 31, 2024: Samsung would join the Academy Software Foundation for the APV project.
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.