Download Administrator's Guide

The following table lists all supported video formats.


Types

TypeDescription
DDemuxing supported
EMuxing supported



Type

Code

Description

 D

4xm            

4X Technologies

 D 

aac            

raw ADTS AAC (Advanced Audio Coding)

 DE

ac3            

raw AC-3

 D 

act            

ACT Voice file format

 D 

adf            

Artworx Data format

 D 

adp            

ADP

 DE

adx            

CRI ADX

 D 

aea            

MD STUDIO audio

 D 

afc            

AFC

 DE

aiff           

Audio IFF

 DE

alaw           

PCM A-law

 D 

alias_pix      

Alias/Wavefront PIX image

 DE

amr            

3GPP AMR

 D 

anm            

Deluxe Paint Animation

 D

apc            

CRYO APC

 D

ape            

Monkey's Audio

 D 

aqtitle        

AQTitle subtitles

 DE

asf            

ASF (Advanced / Active Streaming Format)

 DE

ass            

SSA (SubStation Alpha) subtitle

 DE

ast            

AST (Audio Stream)

 DE

au             

Sun AU

 DE

avi            

AVI (Audio Video Interleaved)

 D 

avr            

AVR (Audio Visual Research)

 D 

avs             

AVS

 D 

bethsoftvid    

Bethesda Softworks VID

 D 

bfi            

Brute Force & Ignorance

 D 

bin            

Binary text

 D 

bink           

Bink

 DE

bit            

G.729 BIT file format

 D 

bmp_pipe       

piped bmp sequence

 D 

bmv            

Discworld II BMV

 D 

boa            

Black Ops Audio

 D 

brender_pix    

BRender PIX image

 D

brstm          

BRSTM (Binary Revolution Stream)

 D 

c93            

Interplay C93

 DE

caf            

Apple CAF (Core Audio Format)

 DE

cavsvideo      

raw Chinese AVS (Audio Video Standard) video

 D 

cdg            

CD Graphics

 D 

cdxl           

Commodore CDXL video

 D 

cine           

Phantom Cine

 D 

concat         

Virtual concatenation script

 DE

data           

raw data

 DE

daud            

D-Cinema audio

 D 

dfa            

Chronomaster DFA

 DE

dirac          

raw Dirac

 DE

dnxhd          

raw DNxHD (SMPTE VC-3)

 D 

dpx_pipe       

piped dpx sequence

 D 

dsf            

DSD Stream File (DSF)

 D 

dsicin         

Delphine Software International CIN

 DE

dts            

raw DTS

 D 

dtshd          

raw DTS-HD

 DE

dv             

DV (Digital Video)

 D 

dv1394         

DV1394 A/V grab

 D 

dxa            

DXA

 D 

ea             

Electronic Arts Multimedia

 D 

ea_cdata       

Electronic Arts cdata

 DE

eac3           

raw E-AC-3

 D 

epaf           

Ensoniq Paris Audio File

 D 

exr_pipe       

piped exr sequence

 DE

f32be          

PCM 32-bit floating-point big-endian

 DE

f32le          

PCM 32-bit floating-point little-endian

 DE

f64be          

PCM 64-bit floating-point big-endian

 DE

f64le          

PCM 64-bit floating-point little-endian

 DE

fbdev          

Linux framebuffer

 DE

ffm            

FFM (FFserver live feed)

 DE

ffmetadata     

FFmpeg metadata in text

 D 

film_cpk       

Sega FILM / CPK

 DE

filmstrip      

Adobe Filmstrip

 DE

flac           

raw FLAC

 D 

flic           

FLI/FLC/FLX animation

 DE

flv            

FLV (Flash Video)

 D 

frm            

Megalux Frame

 DE

g722           

raw G.722

 DE

g723_1         

raw G.723.1

 D 

g729           

G.729 raw format demuxer

 DE

gif            

GIF Animation

 D 

gsm            

raw GSM

 DE

gxf            

GXF (General eXchange Format)

 DE

h261           

raw H.261

 DE

h263           

raw H.263

 DE

h264            

raw H.264 video

 DE

hevc           

raw HEVC video

 D 

hls,applehttp  

Apple HTTP Live Streaming

 D 

hnm            

Cryo HNM v4

 DE

ico            

Microsoft Windows ICO

 D 

idcin          

id Cinematic

 D 

idf            

iCE Draw File

 D 

iff            

IFF (Interchange File Format)

 DE

ilbc           

iLBC storage

 DE

image2         

image2 sequence

 DE

image2pipe     

piped image2 sequence

 D 

ingenient      

raw Ingenient MJPEG

 D 

ipmovie        

Interplay MVE

 DE

ircam          

Berkeley/IRCAM/CARL Sound Format

 D 

iss            

Funcom ISS

 D 

iv8            

IndigoVision 8000 video

 DE

ivf            

On2 IVF

 D 

j2k_pipe       

piped j2k sequence

 DE

jacosub        

JACOsub subtitle format

 D 

jpegls_pipe    

piped jpegls sequence

 D 

jv             

Bitmap Brothers JV

 DE

latm           

LOAS/LATM

 D 

lavfi          

Libavfilter virtual input device

 D 

live_flv       

live RTMP FLV (Flash Video)

 D 

lmlm4          

raw lmlm4

 D 

loas           

LOAS AudioSyncStream

 DE

lrc             

LRC lyrics

 D 

lvf            

LVF

 D 

lxf            

VR native stream (LXF)

 DE

m4v            

raw MPEG-4 video

 D 

matroska,webm  

Matroska / WebM

 D 

mgsts          

Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes

 DE

microdvd       

MicroDVD subtitle format

 DE

mjpeg          

raw MJPEG video

 DE

mlp            

raw MLP

 D 

mlv            

Magic Lantern Video (MLV)

 D 

mm             

American Laser Games MM

 DE

mmf            

Yamaha SMAF

 D 

mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2

QuickTime / MOV

 DE

mp3            

MP3 (MPEG audio layer 3)

 D

mpc            

Musepack

 D 

mpc8          

Musepack SV8

 DE

mpeg           

MPEG-1 Systems / MPEG program stream

 DE

mpegts         

MPEG-TS (MPEG-2 Transport Stream)

 D 

mpegtsraw      

raw MPEG-TS (MPEG-2 Transport Stream)

 D 

mpegvideo      

raw MPEG video

 D 

mpl2           

MPL2 subtitles

 D 

mpsub         

MPlayer subtitles

 D 

msnwctcp       

MSN TCP Webcam stream

 D 

mtv            

MTV

 DE

mulaw          

PCM mu-law

 D 

mv             

Silicon Graphics Movie

 D 

mvi            

Motion Pixels MVI

 DE

mxf            

MXF (Material eXchange Format)

 D 

mxg            

MxPEG clip

 D 

nc             

NC camera feed

 D 

nistsphere     

NIST SPeech HEader REsources

 D 

nsv            

Nullsoft Streaming Video

 DE

nut            

NUT

 D 

nuv            

NuppelVideo

 DE

ogg            

Ogg

 DE

oma            

Sony OpenMG audio

 DE

oss           

 OSS (Open Sound System) playback

 D 

paf           

Amazing Studio Packed Animation File

 D 

pictor_pipe    

piped pictor sequence

 D 

pjs            

PJS (Phoenix Japanimation Society) subtitles

 D 

pmp            

Playstation Portable PMP

 D 

png_pipe       

piped png sequence

 D 

psxstr         

Sony Playstation STR

 D 

pva            

TechnoTrend PVA

 D 

pvf            

PVF (Portable Voice Format)

 D 

qcp           

QCP

 D 

r3d            

REDCODE R3D

 DE

rawvideo       

raw video

 D 

realtext       

RealText subtitle format

 D 

redspark       

RedSpark

 D 

rl2            

RL2

 DE

rm              

RealMedia

 DE

roq            

raw id RoQ

 D 

rpl            

RPL / ARMovie

 D 

rsd            

GameCube RSD

 DE

rso            

Lego Mindstorms RSO

 DE

rtp            

RTP output

 DE

rtsp           

RTSP output

 DE

s16be          

PCM signed 16-bit big-endian

 DE

s16le          

PCM signed 16-bit little-endian

 DE

s24be          

PCM signed 24-bit big-endian

 DE

s24le          

PCM signed 24-bit little-endian

 DE

s32be          

PCM signed 32-bit big-endian

 DE

s32le          

PCM signed 32-bit little-endian

 DE

s8             

PCM signed 8-bit

 D 

sami           

SAMI subtitle format

 DE

sap            

SAP output

 D 

sbg            

SBaGen binaural beats script

 D 

sdp            

SDP

 D 

sdr2           

SDR2

 D 

sgi_pipe       

piped sgi sequence

 D 

shn            

raw Shorten

 D 

siff           

Beam Software SIFF

 D 

sln            

Asterisk raw pcm

 DE

smjpeg         

Loki SDL MJPEG

 D 

smk            

Smacker

 D 

smush          

LucasArts Smush

 D 

sol            

Sierra SOL

 DE

sox             

SoX native

 DE

spdif          

IEC 61937 (used on S/PDIF - IEC958)

 DE

srt            

SubRip subtitle

 D 

subviewer      

SubViewer subtitle format

 D 

subviewer1       

SubViewer v1 subtitle format

 D 

sunrast_pipe

piped sunrast sequence

 DE

swf             

SWF (ShockWave Flash)

 D 

tak            

raw TAK

 D 

tedcaptions    

TED Talks captions

 D 

thp            

THP

 D 

tiff_pipe      

piped tiff sequence

 D 

tiertexseq     

Tiertex Limited SEQ

 D 

tmv            

8088flex TMV

 DE

truehd          

raw TrueHD

 D 

tta            

TTA (True Audio)

 D 

tty            

Tele-typewriter

 D 

txd            

Renderware TeXture Dictionary

 DE

u16be         

PCM unsigned 16-bit big-endian

 DE

u16le          

PCM unsigned 16-bit little-endian

 DE

u24be          

PCM unsigned 24-bit big-endian

 DE

u24le          

PCM unsigned 24-bit little-endian

 DE

u32be          

PCM unsigned 32-bit big-endian

 DE

u32le          

PCM unsigned 32-bit little-endian

 DE

 u8             

PCM unsigned 8-bit

 DE

vc1            

raw VC-1 video

 DE

vc1test        

VC-1 test bitstream

 D 

video4linux2,v4l2

Video4Linux2 device grab

 D 

vivo           

Vivo

 D 

vmd            

Sierra VMD

 D 

vobsub         

VobSub subtitle format

 DE

voc            

Creative Voice

 D 

vplayer        

VPlayer subtitles

 D 

vqf            

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) TwinVQ

 DE

w64            

Sony Wave64

 DE

wav            

WAV / WAVE (Waveform Audio)

 D 

wc3movie       

Wing Commander III movie

 DE

webm_dash_manifest

WebM DASH Manifest

 D 

webp_pipe      

piped webp sequence

 DE

webvtt         

WebVTT subtitle

 D 

wsaud          

Westwood Studios audio

 D 

wsvqa          

Westwood Studios VQA

 DE

wtv            

Windows Television (WTV

 DE

wv             

raw WavPack

 D 

xa             

Maxis XA

 D 

xbin           

eXtended BINary text (XBIN)

 D 

xmv            

Microsoft XMV

 D 

xwma           

Microsoft xWMA

 D 

yop            

Psygnosis YOP

 DE

yuv4mpegpipe

YUV4MPEG pipe