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Supported Video Formats

Supported Input Formats

Encoding.com supports every digital video format imaginable, and boasts support for the broadest array of broadcast codecs and containers in the industry. These include MPEG2-TS, DNXD, MXF, & XDcam. If you would like to test any of our video formats in your broadcast workflow, sign up for a free trial or contact us to get started on a proof of concept.

Supported Output Formats

Video Encoding Formats

  • MP4 (mp4, m4a, m4v, f4v, f4a, m4b, m4r, f4b, mov)
  • 3GP (3gp, 3gp2, 3g2, 3gpp, 3gpp2)
  • OGG (ogg, oga, ogv, ogx)
  • WMV (wmv, wma, asf*)
  • WEBM (webm)
  • FLV (flv)
  • AVI*
  • QuickTime*
  • HDV*
  • MXF (OP1a, OP-Atom)*
  • MPEG-TS (ts)
  • MPEG-2 PS, MPEG-2 TS*
  • WAV, Broadcast WAV*
  • LXF, GXF*
  • VOB*
  • fMP4 (CMAF)

Dynamic Ad Insertion

  • SCTE-35
  • Cue In/Out
  • Cue
  • DateRange

Watermarking

  • Neilsen PCM to ID3 Conversion
  • Neilsen Watermarking Injection

Video Codecs

  • H.263
  • H.264
  • HEVC
  • MPEG4
  • Theora
  • 3GP
  • Windows Media 8
  • Quicktime
  • MPEG-4
  • VP8
  • VP6
  • MPEG1
  • MPEG2 (CableLabs)
  • MPEG-TS
  • MPEG-4*
  • DNXHD
  • XDCAM
  • DV, DVCPRO, DVCPRO*, DVCProHD
  • IMX, XDCAM HD, XDCAM HD422, XDCAM EX*
  • JPEG 2000*
  • VP9
  • RED
  • P2 (Panasonic Camera)
  • Beamr 4,5,4x,5x (CABR)
  • Apple ProRes (ProRes 422 HQ, ProRes 422, ProRes 422 LT, ProRes 422 Proxy, ProRes 4444, ProRes 4444 XQ)
  • Sony XDCAM EX, Sony XDCAM HD, Sony XDCAM IMX, Ikegami GFCAM
  • Sony NXCAM, 1Seg, Sony XAVC-S, Sony XAVC, Panasonic LongG, Panasonic P2 AVC-Ultra (AVC-I Class200), P2 AVC-Intra Class 50 / 100 (Specialized Operational Pattern “Atom” SMPTE 390M), Panasonic AVC-Intra LT-4K and LT-2K, RP 2027 AVC-Intra 50, 100 and 200, AVC- Ultra (AVC-Intra 200) into OP-Atom (MXF)

DRM

  • Google’s WideVine
  • Microsoft PlayReady (BuyDRM)
  • Adobe Flash Access
  • Apple Fairplay

Adaptive Bitrate

  • Apple HTTP Live Streaming (HLS)
  • Microsoft Smooth Streaming (MSS)
  • Adobe’s HTTP Dynamic Streaming (HDS)
  • Wowza Adaptive Bitrate Delivery (SMIL)
  • MPEG-DASH

Supported Image Formats

  • TIFF
  • JPEG
  • GIF
  • PNG
  • WEBVTT
  • Image Playlist
  • Roku Bif

Closed Captions

  • WEBVTT
  • CEA-608/708
  • DFXP
  • SAMI
  • SCC
  • SRT
  • TTML
  • 3GPP

Audio Formats

  • MP3
  • AAC
  • HE-AAC
  • AC3 (Dolby Digital)
  • EAC3 (Dolby Digital Plus)
  • Vorbis
  • WMA
  • PCM
  • Dolby Atmos

HDR Formats

  • HDR 10
  • HLG
  • Dolby Vision 5 & 8.1

Create Your Own Custom Outputs

Encoding.com provides complete flexibility to create your own custom outputs based on dozens of available encoding parameters. Alternatively you can tweak our existing presets and save them as your own for use over and over in the web UI, watch folder or API.

Vid.ly

Vid.ly is our universal open platform that allows users to encode once and deliver anywhere. We’ve tested hundreds of leading devices and have created a set of profiles that serve the highest quality video to the broadest range of devices.

Regular

  • OGV, 360p
  • MOV, 360p
  • WEBM,360p
  • FLV, 360p
  • 3GP, 240p, 240p
  • MP4, 180p, 240p, 272p, 288p, 320p (384k/512k), 360p (1000k/512k), 480p, 640p
  • + 6 thumbnails/posters

HD

  • Vid.ly Regular plus:
    • MP4, 720p
    • WEBM, 720p
    • OGV, 720p

Lite

  • MP4, 360p
  • WEBM, 360p
  • FLV, 360p
  • MP4, 240p
  • MP4, 576p
  • + 6 thumbnails/posters

Lite + HLS

  • Vid.ly Lite plus
    • HLS 240p(200k), 288p(420k), 360p(1000k), 432p(1400k), 480p(2000k), 576p(2600k), 720p(3400k)

Input Audio & Video Formats

3GP/3GP2
ASF (Windows Media)
Audio Interchange File Format (AIFF)
AVI
DNxHD (SMPTE VC-3)
DV video
Flash Video

HEVC
Matroska
MOV (Quicktime)
RED Camera R3D
MP4 Audio-only
MP4 Video/Audio
MPEG-2 TS, MPEG-2 PS, MPEG-1, MPEG audio layer 3

Ogg
PCM
RealMedia
VOB (Video Object)
WAV
WebM

Compatible Video Codecs

3ivx
4X Movie
Alaris VideoGramPiX
Alparysoft lossless codec
American Laser Games MM Video
AMV Video
Apple QuickDraw
ASUS V1
ASUS V2
ATI VCR-2
ATI VCR1
Auravision AURA
Auravision Aura 2
Autodesk Animator Flic video
Autodesk RLE
Avid Meridien Uncompressed
AVImszh
AVIzlib
AVS (Audio Video Standard) video
Beam Software VB
Bethesda VID video
Bink video
Blackmagic 10-bit
Broadway MPEG Capture Codec
Brooktree 411 codec
Brute Force & Ignorance
CamStudio
Camtasia Screen Codec

Canopus HQ Codec
Canopus Lossless Codec
CD Graphics video
Chinese AVS video (AVS1-P2, JiZhun profile)
Cinepak
Cirrus Logic AccuPak
Creative Labs Video Blaster Webcam
Creative YUV (CYUV)
Delphine Software International CIN video
Deluxe Paint Animation
DNxHD (VC3)
DV (Digital Video)
Feeble Files/ScummVM DXA
FFmpeg video codec #1
Flash Screen Video
Flash Video (FLV) / Sorenson Spark / Sorenson H.263
Forward Uncompressed Video Codec
fox motion video
FRAPS: Realtime Video Capture
GeoVision Advanced MPEG-4
GoToMeeting codec G2M2, G2M3, G2M4
H.261
H.263, H.263+
H.264 / AVC / MPEG-4 AVC / MPEG-4 part 10
H.265
HuffYUV
I263

IBM UltiMotion
id Quake II CIN video
id RoQ video
IFF ByteRun1
IFF ILBM
Independent JPEG Group’s codec
Infinite Video PSI_V
Intel Indeo 2
Intel Indeo 3
Intel Indeo 4.1
Intel Indeo 5
Interplay C93
Interplay MVE video
Karl Morton’s video codec
Kega Game Video
kensington webcam
Lagarith Lossless Video Codec
LCL (LossLess Codec Library) MSZH
Lead CMW wavelet 2.0
LOCO
LZO compressed
Microsoft RLE
Microsoft Video 1
Midivid 3
Mimic
Miro VideoXL
MJPEG (Motion JPEG)
Motion Pixels video

Motion Wavelets
Moyea Flash to Video Converter
MPEG-1 video
MPEG-2 video
MPEG-4 part 2
MPEG-4 part 2 (Microsoft variants 1-3)
MPEG-PES
MSS2
MSU Screen Capture Lossless Codec
Nintendo Gamecube THP video
nokia eti camcorder eyecon
NuppelVideo/RTJPEG
On2 VP3
On2 VP4
On2 VP5
On2 VP6
On2 VP6A (with alpha channel)
On2 VP7
Power VideoWorks video
Psygnosis YOP Video
Q-team QPEG
QPEG
QuickTime 8BPS video
QuickTime Animation (RLE) video
QuickTime Graphics (SMC)
QuickTime video (RPZA)
RealVideo 1.0

RealVideo 2.0
RealVideo 3.0
RealVideo 4.0
RL2 video
Schrödinger (Schroedinger), Dirac
Sierra VMD video
sif1 alpha4
Smacker video
SMPTE VC-1
SMV2
Snow
SoftMedia ViVD V2 codec
Sony Digital Video (DV)
Sony PlayStation MDEC (Motion DECoder)
Sorenson Vector Quantizer 1 / Sorenson Video 1 / SVQ1
Sorenson Vector Quantizer 3 / Sorenson Video 3 / SVQ3
SP4x
SP5x
Streambox ACT-L2
SVQ3
Telegeny VDTZ
Theora
Tiertex Limited SEQ video
TrueMotion 1.0
TrueMotion 2.0
UCOD-ClearVideo
VDOWave 3 advanced codec
VDOWave codec

Verint Video Manager
Vianet Lsvx Video
VMware Screen Codec / VMware Video
VP8
VQA (Vector Quantized Animation) video
VSS Codec Light
VSS Wavelet Video Codec
WebTrain Communication lossless screen recorder
wincam screen capture codec
Windows Media Screen Codec 2
Windows Media Video (WMV)
Windows Media Video (VC-1) Advanced Profile
Windows Media Video 7 (WMV 7, WMV1)
Windows Media Video 8 (WMV 8, WMV2)
Windows Media Video 9 (WMV 9, WMV3)
Windows Media Video Adv
Windows Screen Video
Winnov Videum winx codec
Winnov Videum wnv1 codec
Winnov WNV1
WorldConnect Wavelet Video
XAN Video
xfire video
xiricam Veo PC Camera
Xvid (MPEG-4)
YUV
zdsoft screen recorder
Zip Motion Blocks Video

Compatible Audio Codecs

8SVX (exponential and fibonacci)
8088flex TMV
AAC (Advanced Audio Codec)
ACELP.net Sipro Lab Audio
Adaptive Multi-Rate Narrow Band (AMR-NB)
Adaptive Multi-Rate Wide Band (AMR-WB)
ADPCM
Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC)
ALF2
Dolby Digital (AC3, ATSC A/52A, E-AC-3)
Bink Audio (DCT)
Bink Audio (RDFT)
Delphine Software International CIN audio
DCA (DTS Coherent Acoustics)
DSP Group TrueSpeech
DTS audio
ER AAC LD (Error Resiliant, Low-Delay variant of AAC)
Escape 124
FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec)
Fraps
GSM
id RoQ DPCM
IMC (Intel Music Coder)
Indeo audio
Intel Music Coder
Lernout & Hauspie CELP and SBC codecs
libMAD MPEG layer 1-2-3
MACE (Macintosh Audio Compression/Expansion) 3:1
MACE (Macintosh Audio Compression/Expansion) 6:1

 

*Harmonic ProMedia Carbon format.

MLP (Meridian Lossless Packing)
Monkey’s Audio
MP1 (MPEG audio layer 1)
MP2 (MPEG audio layer 2)
MP3 (MPEG layer-2, layer-3)
MPEG audio pass-through for hardware MPEG decoders
MPEG-4 Audio Lossless Coding (ALS)
MS GSM
MSN AUDIO
msn siren audio codec
Musepack audio codec
Musepack SV7
Musepack SV8
Nellymoser Asao
Ogg Vorbis audio
Ogg Vorbis tremor audio
OggVorbis ACM
PCM a-law (alaw)
PCM µ-law (u-law, ulaw, mu-law)
Philips Speech Processing CELP
QCELP / PureVoice
QDesign Music Codec 2
QuickTime QCLP audio
QuickTime QDMC/QDM2 audio
raw DV audio
RealAudio 1.0
RealAudio 2.0
RealAudio ATRAC3
RealAudio COOK
RealAudio Sipro
RealAudio SIPR / ACELP.NET

RealPlayer 10 ATRAC3
RealPlayer 10 COOK audio
RealPlayer 10 Sipro
SC4 : Micronas speech codec
Shorten
Sierra VMD audio
Smacker audio
Sonic
True Audio (TTA)
TrueHD
u-Law
Ulead DV ACM
Uncompressed DVD/VOB LPCM
Uncompressed PCM
vdowave ACM
Vivo G.723/Siren Audio Codec
VoxWare
VoxWare MetaVoice
VoxWare RT24 speech codec
VQF codec by NTTLabs
VQF TwinVQ
WAV audio
WavPack
Westwood Audio (SND1)
Windows Media Audio 1
Windows Media Audio 2
Windows Media Audio 9
Windows Media Audio 9 Professional
Windows Media Audio Voice
Zygo audio

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