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General Documentation

1. External libraries

FFmpeg can be hooked up with a number of external libraries to add support for more formats. None of them are used by default, their use has to be explicitly requested by passing the appropriate flags to ./configure.

1.1 OpenJPEG

FFmpeg can use the OpenJPEG libraries for encoding/decoding J2K videos. Go to http://www.openjpeg.org/ to get the libraries and follow the installation instructions. To enable using OpenJPEG in FFmpeg, pass --enable-libopenjpeg to `./configure'.

1.2 OpenCORE, VisualOn, and Fraunhofer libraries

Spun off Google Android sources, OpenCore, VisualOn and Fraunhofer libraries provide encoders for a number of audio codecs.

OpenCORE and VisualOn libraries are under the Apache License 2.0 (see http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 for details), which is incompatible to the LGPL version 2.1 and GPL version 2. You have to upgrade FFmpeg's license to LGPL version 3 (or if you have enabled GPL components, GPL version 3) by passing --enable-version3 to configure in order to use it.

The Fraunhofer AAC library is licensed under a license incompatible to the GPL and is not known to be compatible to the LGPL. Therefore, you have to pass --enable-nonfree to configure to use it.

1.2.1 OpenCORE AMR

FFmpeg can make use of the OpenCORE libraries for AMR-NB decoding/encoding and AMR-WB decoding.

Go to http://sourceforge.net/projects/opencore-amr/ and follow the instructions for installing the libraries. Then pass --enable-libopencore-amrnb and/or --enable-libopencore-amrwb to configure to enable them.

1.2.2 VisualOn AAC encoder library

FFmpeg can make use of the VisualOn AACenc library for AAC encoding.

Go to http://sourceforge.net/projects/opencore-amr/ and follow the instructions for installing the library. Then pass --enable-libvo-aacenc to configure to enable it.

1.2.3 VisualOn AMR-WB encoder library

FFmpeg can make use of the VisualOn AMR-WBenc library for AMR-WB encoding.

Go to http://sourceforge.net/projects/opencore-amr/ and follow the instructions for installing the library. Then pass --enable-libvo-amrwbenc to configure to enable it.

1.2.4 Fraunhofer AAC library

FFmpeg can make use of the Fraunhofer AAC library for AAC encoding.

Go to http://sourceforge.net/projects/opencore-amr/ and follow the instructions for installing the library. Then pass --enable-libfdk-aac to configure to enable it.

1.3 LAME

FFmpeg can make use of the LAME library for MP3 encoding.

Go to http://lame.sourceforge.net/ and follow the instructions for installing the library. Then pass --enable-libmp3lame to configure to enable it.

1.4 TwoLAME

FFmpeg can make use of the TwoLAME library for MP2 encoding.

Go to http://www.twolame.org/ and follow the instructions for installing the library. Then pass --enable-libtwolame to configure to enable it.

1.5 libvpx

FFmpeg can make use of the libvpx library for VP8/VP9 encoding.

Go to http://www.webmproject.org/ and follow the instructions for installing the library. Then pass --enable-libvpx to configure to enable it.

1.6 libwavpack

FFmpeg can make use of the libwavpack library for WavPack encoding.

Go to http://www.wavpack.com/ and follow the instructions for installing the library. Then pass --enable-libwavpack to configure to enable it.

1.7 OpenH264

FFmpeg can make use of the OpenH264 library for H.264 encoding.

Go to http://www.openh264.org/ and follow the instructions for installing the library. Then pass --enable-libopenh264 to configure to enable it.

1.8 x264

FFmpeg can make use of the x264 library for H.264 encoding.

Go to http://www.videolan.org/developers/x264.html and follow the instructions for installing the library. Then pass --enable-libx264 to configure to enable it.

x264 is under the GNU Public License Version 2 or later (see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html for details), you must upgrade FFmpeg's license to GPL in order to use it.

1.9 x265

FFmpeg can make use of the x265 library for HEVC encoding.

Go to http://x265.org/developers.html and follow the instructions for installing the library. Then pass --enable-libx265 to configure to enable it.

x265 is under the GNU Public License Version 2 or later (see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html for details), you must upgrade FFmpeg's license to GPL in order to use it.

1.10 libilbc

iLBC is a narrowband speech codec that has been made freely available by Google as part of the WebRTC project. libilbc is a packaging friendly copy of the iLBC codec. FFmpeg can make use of the libilbc library for iLBC encoding and decoding.

Go to https://github.com/TimothyGu/libilbc and follow the instructions for installing the library. Then pass --enable-libilbc to configure to enable it.

1.11 libzvbi

libzvbi is a VBI decoding library which can be used by FFmpeg to decode DVB teletext pages and DVB teletext subtitles.

Go to http://sourceforge.net/projects/zapping/ and follow the instructions for installing the library. Then pass --enable-libzvbi to configure to enable it.

libzvbi is licensed under the GNU General Public License Version 2 or later (see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html for details), you must upgrade FFmpeg's license to GPL in order to use it.

1.12 AviSynth

FFmpeg can read AviSynth scripts as input. To enable support, pass --enable-avisynth to configure. The correct headers are included in compat/avisynth/, which allows the user to enable support without needing to search for these headers themselves.

For Windows, supported AviSynth variants are AviSynth 2.5 or 2.6 for 32-bit builds and AviSynth+ 0.1 for 32-bit and 64-bit builds.

For Linux and OS X, the supported AviSynth variant is AvxSynth.

AviSynth and AvxSynth are loaded dynamically. Distributors can build FFmpeg with --enable-avisynth, and the binaries will work regardless of the end user having AviSynth or AvxSynth installed - they'll only need to be installed to use AviSynth scripts (obviously).

2. Supported File Formats, Codecs or Features

You can use the -formats and -codecs options to have an exhaustive list.

2.1 File Formats

FFmpeg supports the following file formats through the libavformat library:

Name

Encoding

Decoding

Comments

4xm

X

4X Technologies format, used in some games.

8088flex TMV

X

ACT Voice

X

contains G.729 audio

Adobe Filmstrip

X

X

Audio IFF (AIFF)

X

X

American Laser Games MM

X

Multimedia format used in games like Mad Dog McCree.

3GPP AMR

X

X

Amazing Studio Packed Animation File

X

Multimedia format used in game Heart Of Darkness.

Apple HTTP Live Streaming

X

Artworx Data Format

X

ADP

X

Audio format used on the Nintendo Gamecube.

AFC

X

Audio format used on the Nintendo Gamecube.

ASF

X

X

AST

X

X

Audio format used on the Nintendo Wii.

AVI

X

X

AviSynth

X

AVR

X

Audio format used on Mac.

AVS

X

Multimedia format used by the Creature Shock game.

Beam Software SIFF

X

Audio and video format used in some games by Beam Software.

Bethesda Softworks VID

X

Used in some games from Bethesda Softworks.

Binary text

X

Bink

X

Multimedia format used by many games.

Bitmap Brothers JV

X

Used in Z and Z95 games.

Brute Force & Ignorance

X

Used in the game Flash Traffic: City of Angels.

BRSTM

X

Audio format used on the Nintendo Wii.

BWF

X

X

CRI ADX

X

X

Audio-only format used in console video games.

Discworld II BMV

X

Interplay C93

X

Used in the game Cyberia from Interplay.

Delphine Software International CIN

X

Multimedia format used by Delphine Software games.

Digital Speech Standard (DSS)

X

Canopus HQX

X

CD+G

X

Video format used by CD+G karaoke disks

Phantom Cine

X

Commodore CDXL

X

Amiga CD video format

Core Audio Format

X

X

Apple Core Audio Format

CRC testing format

X

Creative Voice

X

X

Created for the Sound Blaster Pro.

CRYO APC

X

Audio format used in some games by CRYO Interactive Entertainment.

D-Cinema audio

X

X

Deluxe Paint Animation

X

DFA

X

This format is used in Chronomaster game

DSD Stream File (DSF)

X

DV video

X

X

DXA

X

This format is used in the non-Windows version of the Feeble Files game and different game cutscenes repacked for use with ScummVM.

Electronic Arts cdata

X

Electronic Arts Multimedia

X

Used in various EA games; files have extensions like WVE and UV2.

Ensoniq Paris Audio File

X

FFM (FFserver live feed)

X

X

Flash (SWF)

X

X

Flash 9 (AVM2)

X

X

Only embedded audio is decoded.

FLI/FLC/FLX animation

X

.fli/.flc files

Flash Video (FLV)

X

X

Macromedia Flash video files

framecrc testing format

X

FunCom ISS

X

Audio format used in various games from FunCom like The Longest Journey.

G.723.1

X

X

G.729 BIT

X

X

G.729 raw

X

GIF Animation

X

X

GXF

X

X

General eXchange Format SMPTE 360M, used by Thomson Grass Valley playout servers.

HNM

X

Only version 4 supported, used in some games from Cryo Interactive

iCEDraw File

X

ICO

X

X

Microsoft Windows ICO

id Quake II CIN video

X

id RoQ

X

X

Used in Quake III, Jedi Knight 2 and other computer games.

IEC61937 encapsulation

X

X

IFF

X

Interchange File Format

iLBC

X

X

Interplay MVE

X

Format used in various Interplay computer games.

IV8

X

A format generated by IndigoVision 8000 video server.

IVF (On2)

X

X

A format used by libvpx

IRCAM

X

X

LATM

X

X

LMLM4

X

Used by Linux Media Labs MPEG-4 PCI boards

LOAS

X

contains LATM multiplexed AAC audio

LRC

X

X

LVF

X

LXF

X

VR native stream format, used by Leitch/Harris' video servers.

Magic Lantern Video (MLV)

X

Matroska

X

X

Matroska audio

X

FFmpeg metadata

X

X

Metadata in text format.

MAXIS XA

X

Used in Sim City 3000; file extension .xa.

MD Studio

X

Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes

X

Megalux Frame

X

Used by Megalux Ultimate Paint

Mobotix .mxg

X

Monkey's Audio

X

Motion Pixels MVI

X

MOV/QuickTime/MP4

X

X

3GP, 3GP2, PSP, iPod variants supported

MP2

X

X

MP3

X

X

MPEG-1 System

X

X

muxed audio and video, VCD format supported

MPEG-PS (program stream)

X

X

also known as VOB file, SVCD and DVD format supported

MPEG-TS (transport stream)

X

X

also known as DVB Transport Stream

MPEG-4

X

X

MPEG-4 is a variant of QuickTime.

Mirillis FIC video

X

No cursor rendering.

MIME multipart JPEG

X

MSN TCP webcam

X

Used by MSN Messenger webcam streams.

MTV

X

Musepack

X

Musepack SV8

X

Material eXchange Format (MXF)

X

X

SMPTE 377M, used by D-Cinema, broadcast industry.

Material eXchange Format (MXF), D-10 Mapping

X

X

SMPTE 386M, D-10/IMX Mapping.

NC camera feed

X

NC (AVIP NC4600) camera streams

NIST SPeech HEader REsources

X

NTT TwinVQ (VQF)

X

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation TwinVQ.

Nullsoft Streaming Video

X

NuppelVideo

X

NUT

X

X

NUT Open Container Format

Ogg

X

X

Playstation Portable PMP

X

Portable Voice Format

X

TechnoTrend PVA

X

Used by TechnoTrend DVB PCI boards.

QCP

X

raw ADTS (AAC)

X

X

raw AC-3

X

X

raw Chinese AVS video

X

X

raw CRI ADX

X

X

raw Dirac

X

X

raw DNxHD

X

X

raw DTS

X

X

raw DTS-HD

X

raw E-AC-3

X

X

raw FLAC

X

X

raw GSM

X

raw H.261

X

X

raw H.263

X

X

raw H.264

X

X

raw HEVC

X

X

raw Ingenient MJPEG

X

raw MJPEG

X

X

raw MLP

X

raw MPEG

X

raw MPEG-1

X

raw MPEG-2

X

raw MPEG-4

X

X

raw NULL

X

raw video

X

X

raw id RoQ

X

raw Shorten

X

raw TAK

X

raw TrueHD

X

X

raw VC-1

X

X

raw PCM A-law

X

X

raw PCM mu-law

X

X

raw PCM signed 8 bit

X

X

raw PCM signed 16 bit big-endian

X

X

raw PCM signed 16 bit little-endian

X

X

raw PCM signed 24 bit big-endian

X

X

raw PCM signed 24 bit little-endian

X

X

raw PCM signed 32 bit big-endian

X

X

raw PCM signed 32 bit little-endian

X

X

raw PCM unsigned 8 bit

X

X

raw PCM unsigned 16 bit big-endian

X

X

raw PCM unsigned 16 bit little-endian

X

X

raw PCM unsigned 24 bit big-endian

X

X

raw PCM unsigned 24 bit little-endian

X

X

raw PCM unsigned 32 bit big-endian

X

X

raw PCM unsigned 32 bit little-endian

X

X

raw PCM floating-point 32 bit big-endian

X

X

raw PCM floating-point 32 bit little-endian

X

X

raw PCM floating-point 64 bit big-endian

X

X

raw PCM floating-point 64 bit little-endian

X

X

RDT

X

REDCODE R3D

X

File format used by RED Digital cameras, contains JPEG 2000 frames and PCM audio.

RealMedia

X

X

Redirector

X

RedSpark

X

Renderware TeXture Dictionary

X

RL2

X

Audio and video format used in some games by Entertainment Software Partners.

RPL/ARMovie

X

Lego Mindstorms RSO

X

X

RSD

X

RTMP

X

X

Output is performed by publishing stream to RTMP server

RTP

X

X

RTSP

X

X

SAP

X

X

SBG

X

SDP

X

Sega FILM/CPK

X

Used in many Sega Saturn console games.

Silicon Graphics Movie

X

Sierra SOL

X

.sol files used in Sierra Online games.

Sierra VMD

X

Used in Sierra CD-ROM games.

Smacker

X

Multimedia format used by many games.

SMJPEG

X

X

Used in certain Loki game ports.

Smush

X

Multimedia format used in some LucasArts games.

Sony OpenMG (OMA)

X

X

Audio format used in Sony Sonic Stage and Sony Vegas.

Sony PlayStation STR

X

Sony Wave64 (W64)

X

X

SoX native format

X

X

SUN AU format

X

X

SUP raw PGS subtitles

X

Text files

X

THP

X

Used on the Nintendo GameCube.

Tiertex Limited SEQ

X

Tiertex .seq files used in the DOS CD-ROM version of the game Flashback.

True Audio

X

VC-1 test bitstream

X

X

Vivo

X

WAV

X

X

WavPack

X

X

WebM

X

X

Windows Televison (WTV)

X

X

Wing Commander III movie

X

Multimedia format used in Origin's Wing Commander III computer game.

Westwood Studios audio

X

Multimedia format used in Westwood Studios games.

Westwood Studios VQA

X

Multimedia format used in Westwood Studios games.

XMV

X

Microsoft video container used in Xbox games.

xWMA

X

Microsoft audio container used by XAudio 2.

eXtended BINary text (XBIN)

X

YUV4MPEG pipe

X

X

Psygnosis YOP

X

X means that encoding (resp. decoding) is supported.

2.2 Image Formats

FFmpeg can read and write images for each frame of a video sequence. The following image formats are supported:

Name

Encoding

Decoding

Comments

.Y.U.V

X

X

one raw file per component

Alias PIX

X

X

Alias/Wavefront PIX image format

animated GIF

X

X

BMP

X

X

Microsoft BMP image

BRender PIX

X

Argonaut BRender 3D engine image format.

DPX

X

X

Digital Picture Exchange

EXR

X

OpenEXR

JPEG

X

X

Progressive JPEG is not supported.

JPEG 2000

X

X

JPEG-LS

X

X

LJPEG

X

Lossless JPEG

PAM

X

X

PAM is a PNM extension with alpha support.

PBM

X

X

Portable BitMap image

PCX

X

X

PC Paintbrush

PGM

X

X

Portable GrayMap image

PGMYUV

X

X

PGM with U and V components in YUV 4:2:0

PIC

X

Pictor/PC Paint

PNG

X

X

PPM

X

X

Portable PixelMap image

PTX

X

V.Flash PTX format

SGI

X

X

SGI RGB image format

Sun Rasterfile

X

X

Sun RAS image format

TIFF

X

X

YUV, JPEG and some extension is not supported yet.

Truevision Targa

X

X

Targa (.TGA) image format

WebP

E

X

WebP image format, encoding supported through external library libwebp

XBM

X

X

X BitMap image format

XFace

X

X

X-Face image format

XWD

X

X

X Window Dump image format

X means that encoding (resp. decoding) is supported.

E means that support is provided through an external library.

2.3 Video Codecs

Name

Encoding

Decoding

Comments

4X Movie

X

Used in certain computer games.

8088flex TMV

X

A64 multicolor

X

Creates video suitable to be played on a commodore 64 (multicolor mode).

Amazing Studio PAF Video

X

American Laser Games MM

X

Used in games like Mad Dog McCree.

AMV Video

X

X

Used in Chinese MP3 players.

ANSI/ASCII art

X

Apple Intermediate Codec

X

Apple MJPEG-B

X

Apple ProRes

X

X

Apple QuickDraw

X

fourcc: qdrw

Asus v1

X

X

fourcc: ASV1

Asus v2

X

X

fourcc: ASV2

ATI VCR1

X

fourcc: VCR1

ATI VCR2

X

fourcc: VCR2

Auravision Aura

X

Auravision Aura 2

X

Autodesk Animator Flic video

X

Autodesk RLE

X

fourcc: AASC

Avid 1:1 10-bit RGB Packer

X

X

fourcc: AVrp

AVS (Audio Video Standard) video

X

Video encoding used by the Creature Shock game.

AYUV

X

X

Microsoft uncompressed packed 4:4:4:4

Beam Software VB

X

Bethesda VID video

X

Used in some games from Bethesda Softworks.

Bink Video

X

Bitmap Brothers JV video

X

y41p Brooktree uncompressed 4:1:1 12-bit

X

X

Brute Force & Ignorance

X

Used in the game Flash Traffic: City of Angels.

C93 video

X

Codec used in Cyberia game.

CamStudio

X

fourcc: CSCD

CD+G

X

Video codec for CD+G karaoke disks

CDXL

X

Amiga CD video codec

Chinese AVS video

E

X

AVS1-P2, JiZhun profile, encoding through external library libxavs

Delphine Software International CIN video

X

Codec used in Delphine Software International games.

Discworld II BMV Video

X

Canopus Lossless Codec

X

Cinepak

X

Cirrus Logic AccuPak

X

X

fourcc: CLJR

CPiA Video Format

X

Creative YUV (CYUV)

X

DFA

X

Codec used in Chronomaster game.

Dirac

E

X

supported through external library libschroedinger

Deluxe Paint Animation

X

DNxHD

X

X

aka SMPTE VC3

Duck TrueMotion 1.0

X

fourcc: DUCK

Duck TrueMotion 2.0

X

fourcc: TM20

DV (Digital Video)

X

X

Dxtory capture format

X

Feeble Files/ScummVM DXA

X

Codec originally used in Feeble Files game.

Electronic Arts CMV video

X

Used in NHL 95 game.

Electronic Arts Madcow video

X

Electronic Arts TGV video

X

Electronic Arts TGQ video

X

Electronic Arts TQI video

X

Escape 124

X

Escape 130

X

FFmpeg video codec #1

X

X

lossless codec (fourcc: FFV1)

Flash Screen Video v1

X

X

fourcc: FSV1

Flash Screen Video v2

X

X

Flash Video (FLV)

X

X

Sorenson H.263 used in Flash

Forward Uncompressed

X

Fraps

X

Go2Webinar

X

fourcc: G2M4

H.261

X

X

H.263 / H.263-1996

X

X

H.263+ / H.263-1998 / H.263 version 2

X

X

H.264 / AVC / MPEG-4 AVC / MPEG-4 part 10

E

X

encoding supported through external library libx264 and OpenH264

HEVC

X

X

encoding supported through the external library libx265

HNM version 4

X

HuffYUV

X

X

HuffYUV FFmpeg variant

X

X

IBM Ultimotion

X

fourcc: ULTI

id Cinematic video

X

Used in Quake II.

id RoQ video

X

X

Used in Quake III, Jedi Knight 2, other computer games.

IFF ILBM

X

IFF interleaved bitmap

IFF ByteRun1

X

IFF run length encoded bitmap

Intel H.263

X

Intel Indeo 2

X

Intel Indeo 3

X

Intel Indeo 4

X

Intel Indeo 5

X

Interplay C93

X

Used in the game Cyberia from Interplay.

Interplay MVE video

X

Used in Interplay .MVE files.

J2K

X

X

Karl Morton's video codec

X

Codec used in Worms games.

Kega Game Video (KGV1)

X

Kega emulator screen capture codec.

Lagarith

X

LCL (LossLess Codec Library) MSZH

X

LCL (LossLess Codec Library) ZLIB

E

E

LOCO

X

LucasArts SANM/Smush

X

Used in LucasArts games / SMUSH animations.

lossless MJPEG

X

X

Microsoft ATC Screen

X

Also known as Microsoft Screen 3.

Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen

X

Also known as Microsoft Titanium Screen 2.

Microsoft RLE

X

Microsoft Screen 1

X

Also known as Windows Media Video V7 Screen.

Microsoft Screen 2

X

Also known as Windows Media Video V9 Screen.

Microsoft Video 1

X

Mimic

X

Used in MSN Messenger Webcam streams.

Miro VideoXL

X

fourcc: VIXL

MJPEG (Motion JPEG)

X

X

Mobotix MxPEG video

X

Motion Pixels video

X

MPEG-1 video

X

X

MPEG-2 video

X

X

MPEG-4 part 2

X

X

libxvidcore can be used alternatively for encoding.

MPEG-4 part 2 Microsoft variant version 1

X

MPEG-4 part 2 Microsoft variant version 2

X

X

MPEG-4 part 2 Microsoft variant version 3

X

X

Nintendo Gamecube THP video

X

NuppelVideo/RTjpeg

X

Video encoding used in NuppelVideo files.

On2 VP3

X

still experimental

On2 VP5

X

fourcc: VP50

On2 VP6

X

fourcc: VP60,VP61,VP62

On2 VP7

X

fourcc: VP70,VP71

VP8

E

X

fourcc: VP80, encoding supported through external library libvpx

VP9

E

X

encoding supported through external library libvpx

Pinnacle TARGA CineWave YUV16

X

fourcc: Y216

Prores

X

fourcc: apch,apcn,apcs,apco

Q-team QPEG

X

fourccs: QPEG, Q1.0, Q1.1

QuickTime 8BPS video

X

QuickTime Animation (RLE) video

X

X

fourcc: 'rle '

QuickTime Graphics (SMC)

X

fourcc: 'smc '

QuickTime video (RPZA)

X

fourcc: rpza

R10K AJA Kona 10-bit RGB Codec

X

X

R210 Quicktime Uncompressed RGB 10-bit

X

X

Raw Video

X

X

RealVideo 1.0

X

X

RealVideo 2.0

X

X

RealVideo 3.0

X

still far from ideal

RealVideo 4.0

X

Renderware TXD (TeXture Dictionary)

X

Texture dictionaries used by the Renderware Engine.

RL2 video

X

used in some games by Entertainment Software Partners

Sierra VMD video

X

Used in Sierra VMD files.

Silicon Graphics Motion Video Compressor 1 (MVC1)

X

Silicon Graphics Motion Video Compressor 2 (MVC2)

X

Silicon Graphics RLE 8-bit video

X

Smacker video

X

Video encoding used in Smacker.

SMPTE VC-1

X

Snow

X

X

experimental wavelet codec (fourcc: SNOW)

Sony PlayStation MDEC (Motion DECoder)

X

Sorenson Vector Quantizer 1

X

X

fourcc: SVQ1

Sorenson Vector Quantizer 3

X

fourcc: SVQ3

Sunplus JPEG (SP5X)

X

fourcc: SP5X

TechSmith Screen Capture Codec

X

fourcc: TSCC

TechSmith Screen Capture Codec 2

X

fourcc: TSC2

Theora

E

X

encoding supported through external library libtheora

Tiertex Limited SEQ video

X

Codec used in DOS CD-ROM FlashBack game.

Ut Video

X

X

v210 QuickTime uncompressed 4:2:2 10-bit

X

X

v308 QuickTime uncompressed 4:4:4

X

X

v408 QuickTime uncompressed 4:4:4:4

X

X

v410 QuickTime uncompressed 4:4:4 10-bit

X

X

VBLE Lossless Codec

X

VMware Screen Codec / VMware Video

X

Codec used in videos captured by VMware.

Westwood Studios VQA (Vector Quantized Animation) video

X

Windows Media Image

X

Windows Media Video 7

X

X

Windows Media Video 8

X

X

Windows Media Video 9

X

not completely working

Wing Commander III / Xan

X

Used in Wing Commander III .MVE files.

Wing Commander IV / Xan

X

Used in Wing Commander IV.

Winnov WNV1

X

WMV7

X

X

YAMAHA SMAF

X

X

Psygnosis YOP Video

X

yuv4

X

X

libquicktime uncompressed packed 4:2:0

ZeroCodec Lossless Video

X

ZLIB

X

X

part of LCL, encoder experimental

Zip Motion Blocks Video

X

X

Encoder works only in PAL8.

X means that encoding (resp. decoding) is supported.

E means that support is provided through an external library.

2.4 Audio Codecs

Name

Encoding

Decoding

Comments

8SVX exponential

X

8SVX fibonacci

X

AAC+

E

X

encoding supported through external library libaacplus

AAC

E

X

encoding supported through external library libfaac and libvo-aacenc

AC-3

IX

IX

ADPCM 4X Movie

X

ADPCM CDROM XA

X

ADPCM Creative Technology

X

16 -> 4, 8 -> 4, 8 -> 3, 8 -> 2

ADPCM Electronic Arts

X

Used in various EA titles.

ADPCM Electronic Arts Maxis CDROM XS

X

Used in Sim City 3000.

ADPCM Electronic Arts R1

X

ADPCM Electronic Arts R2

X

ADPCM Electronic Arts R3

X

ADPCM Electronic Arts XAS

X

ADPCM G.722

X

X

ADPCM G.726

X

X

ADPCM IMA AMV

X

Used in AMV files

ADPCM IMA Electronic Arts EACS

X

ADPCM IMA Electronic Arts SEAD

X

ADPCM IMA Funcom

X

ADPCM IMA QuickTime

X

X

ADPCM IMA Loki SDL MJPEG

X

ADPCM IMA WAV

X

X

ADPCM IMA Westwood

X

ADPCM ISS IMA

X

Used in FunCom games.

ADPCM IMA Dialogic

X

ADPCM IMA Duck DK3

X

Used in some Sega Saturn console games.

ADPCM IMA Duck DK4

X

Used in some Sega Saturn console games.

ADPCM IMA Radical

X

ADPCM Microsoft

X

X

ADPCM MS IMA

X

X

ADPCM Nintendo Gamecube AFC

X

ADPCM Nintendo Gamecube DTK

X

ADPCM Nintendo Gamecube THP

X

ADPCM QT IMA

X

X

ADPCM SEGA CRI ADX

X

X

Used in Sega Dreamcast games.

ADPCM Shockwave Flash

X

X

ADPCM Sound Blaster Pro 2-bit

X

ADPCM Sound Blaster Pro 2.6-bit

X

ADPCM Sound Blaster Pro 4-bit

X

ADPCM VIMA

Used in LucasArts SMUSH animations.

ADPCM Westwood Studios IMA

X

Used in Westwood Studios games like Command and Conquer.

ADPCM Yamaha

X

X

AMR-NB

E

X

encoding supported through external library libopencore-amrnb

AMR-WB

E

X

encoding supported through external library libvo-amrwbenc

Amazing Studio PAF Audio

X

Apple lossless audio

X

X

QuickTime fourcc 'alac'

ATRAC1

X

ATRAC3

X

ATRAC3+

X

Bink Audio

X

Used in Bink and Smacker files in many games.

CELT

E

decoding supported through external library libcelt

Delphine Software International CIN audio

X

Codec used in Delphine Software International games.

Digital Speech Standard - Standard Play mode (DSS SP)

X

Discworld II BMV Audio

X

COOK

X

All versions except 5.1 are supported.

DCA (DTS Coherent Acoustics)

X

X

DPCM id RoQ

X

X

Used in Quake III, Jedi Knight 2 and other computer games.

DPCM Interplay

X

Used in various Interplay computer games.

DPCM Sierra Online

X

Used in Sierra Online game audio files.

DPCM Sol

X

DPCM Xan

X

Used in Origin's Wing Commander IV AVI files.

DSD (Direct Stream Digitial), least significant bit first

X

DSD (Direct Stream Digitial), most significant bit first

X

DSD (Direct Stream Digitial), least significant bit first, planar

X

DSD (Direct Stream Digitial), most significant bit first, planar

X

DSP Group TrueSpeech

X

DV audio

X

Enhanced AC-3

X

X

EVRC (Enhanced Variable Rate Codec)

X

FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec)

X

IX

G.723.1

X

X

G.729

X

GSM

E

X

encoding supported through external library libgsm

GSM Microsoft variant

E

X

encoding supported through external library libgsm

IAC (Indeo Audio Coder)

X

iLBC (Internet Low Bitrate Codec)

E

E

encoding and decoding supported through external library libilbc

IMC (Intel Music Coder)

X

MACE (Macintosh Audio Compression/Expansion) 3:1

X

MACE (Macintosh Audio Compression/Expansion) 6:1

X

MLP (Meridian Lossless Packing)

X

Used in DVD-Audio discs.

Monkey's Audio

X

MP1 (MPEG audio layer 1)

IX

MP2 (MPEG audio layer 2)

IX

IX

encoding supported also through external library TwoLAME

MP3 (MPEG audio layer 3)

E

IX

encoding supported through external library LAME, ADU MP3 and MP3onMP4 also supported

MPEG-4 Audio Lossless Coding (ALS)

X

Musepack SV7

X

Musepack SV8

X

Nellymoser Asao

X

X

On2 AVC (Audio for Video Codec)

X

Opus

E

E

supported through external library libopus

PCM A-law

X

X

PCM mu-law

X

X

PCM signed 8-bit planar

X

X

PCM signed 16-bit big-endian planar

X

X

PCM signed 16-bit little-endian planar

X

X

PCM signed 24-bit little-endian planar

X

X

PCM signed 32-bit little-endian planar

X

X

PCM 32-bit floating point big-endian

X

X

PCM 32-bit floating point little-endian

X

X

PCM 64-bit floating point big-endian

X

X

PCM 64-bit floating point little-endian

X

X

PCM D-Cinema audio signed 24-bit

X

X

PCM signed 8-bit

X

X

PCM signed 16-bit big-endian

X

X

PCM signed 16-bit little-endian

X

X

PCM signed 24-bit big-endian

X

X

PCM signed 24-bit little-endian

X

X

PCM signed 32-bit big-endian

X

X

PCM signed 32-bit little-endian

X

X

PCM signed 16/20/24-bit big-endian in MPEG-TS

X

PCM unsigned 8-bit

X

X

PCM unsigned 16-bit big-endian

X

X

PCM unsigned 16-bit little-endian

X

X

PCM unsigned 24-bit big-endian

X

X

PCM unsigned 24-bit little-endian

X

X

PCM unsigned 32-bit big-endian

X

X

PCM unsigned 32-bit little-endian

X

X

PCM Zork

X

QCELP / PureVoice

X

QDesign Music Codec 2

X

There are still some distortions.

RealAudio 1.0 (14.4K)

X

X

Real 14400 bit/s codec

RealAudio 2.0 (28.8K)

X

Real 28800 bit/s codec

RealAudio 3.0 (dnet)

IX

X

Real low bitrate AC-3 codec

RealAudio Lossless

X

RealAudio SIPR / ACELP.NET

X

Shorten

X

Sierra VMD audio

X

Used in Sierra VMD files.

Smacker audio

X

SMPTE 302M AES3 audio

X

X

Sonic

X

X

experimental codec

Sonic lossless

X

X

experimental codec

Speex

E

E

supported through external library libspeex

TAK (Tom's lossless Audio Kompressor)

X

True Audio (TTA)

X

X

TrueHD

X

Used in HD-DVD and Blu-Ray discs.

TwinVQ (VQF flavor)

X

VIMA

X

Used in LucasArts SMUSH animations.

Vorbis

E

X

A native but very primitive encoder exists.

Voxware MetaSound

X

WavPack

X

X

Westwood Audio (SND1)

X

Windows Media Audio 1

X

X

Windows Media Audio 2

X

X

Windows Media Audio Lossless

X

Windows Media Audio Pro

X

Windows Media Audio Voice

X

X means that encoding (resp. decoding) is supported.

E means that support is provided through an external library.

I means that an integer-only version is available, too (ensures high performance on systems without hardware floating point support).

2.5 Subtitle Formats

Name

Muxing

Demuxing

Encoding

Decoding

3GPP Timed Text

X

X

AQTitle

X

X

DVB

X

X

X

X

DVB teletext

X

E

DVD

X

X

X

X

JACOsub

X

X

X

MicroDVD

X

X

X

MPL2

X

X

MPsub (MPlayer)

X

X

PGS

X

PJS (Phoenix)

X

X

RealText

X

X

SAMI

X

X

Spruce format (STL)

X

X

SSA/ASS

X

X

X

X

SubRip (SRT)

X

X

X

X

SubViewer v1

X

X

SubViewer

X

X

TED Talks captions

X

X

VobSub (IDX+SUB)

X

X

VPlayer

X

X

WebVTT

X

X

X

X

XSUB

X

X

X means that the feature is supported.

E means that support is provided through an external library.

2.6 Network Protocols

Name

Support

file

X

FTP

X

Gopher

X

HLS

X

HTTP

X

HTTPS

X

Icecast

X

MMSH

X

MMST

X

pipe

X

RTMP

X

RTMPE

X

RTMPS

X

RTMPT

X

RTMPTE

X

RTMPTS

X

RTP

X

SAMBA

E

SCTP

X

SFTP

E

TCP

X

TLS

X

UDP

X

X means that the protocol is supported.

E means that support is provided through an external library.

2.7 Input/Output Devices

Name

Input

Output

ALSA

X

X

BKTR

X

caca

X

DV1394

X

Lavfi virtual device

X

Linux framebuffer

X

X

JACK

X

LIBCDIO

X

LIBDC1394

X

OpenAL

X

OpenGL

X

OSS

X

X

PulseAudio

X

X

SDL

X

Video4Linux2

X

X

VfW capture

X

X11 grabbing

X

Win32 grabbing

X

X means that input/output is supported.

2.8 Timecode

Codec/format

Read

Write

AVI

X

X

DV

X

X

GXF

X

X

MOV

X

X

MPEG1/2

X

X

MXF

X

X

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