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Supported File Container Formats

Reading & decoding

Mezzmo can read the following container file formats. A container file format may contain one or more audio, video, image or subtitle streams within the file.

File Format Identifier/File Extension File Format Identifier/File Extension File Format Identifier/File Extension
4X Technologies format 4xm IFF format IFF Funcom ISS format ISS
MTV format MTV raw id RoQ format RoQ raw ADTS AAC aac
raw AC-3 ac3 Audio IFF aiff PCM A-law format alaw
3GPP AMR file format amr CRYO APC format apc Monkey's Audio ape
ASF format asf SSA/ASS format ass SUN AU format au
Brute Force & Ignorance bfi Interplay C93 c93 raw Chinese AVS video cavsvideo
D-Cinema audio format daud raw Dirac dirac raw DNxHD (SMPTE VC-3) dnxhd
Delphine Software International CIN format dsicin raw DTS dts DV video format dv
Microsoft Digital Video Recording dvr-ms DXA dxa Electronic Arts Multimedia Format ea
Electronic Arts cdata ea_cdata raw E-AC-3 eac3 PCM 32 bit floating-point big-endian format f32be
PCM 32 bit floating-point little-endian format f32le PCM 64 bit floating-point big-endian format f64be PCM 64 bit floating-point little-endian format f64le
FFM (FFserver live feed) format ffm Sega FILM/CPK format film_cpk raw FLAC flac
FLI/FLC/FLX animation format flic FLV format flv raw GSM gsm
GXF format gxf raw H.261 h261 raw H.263 h263
raw H.264 video format h264 id Cinematic format idcin image2 sequence image2
piped image2 sequence image2pipe raw Ingenient MJPEG ingenient Interplay MVE format ipmovie
lmlm4 raw format lmlm4 raw MPEG-4 video format m4v Matroska file format matroska, mkv, mka
raw MJPEG video mjpeg, mpg raw MLP mlp American Laser Games MM format mm
Yamaha SMAF mmf QuickTime/MPEG-4/Motion JPEG 2000 format mov, mp4, m4a, 3gp, 3g2, mj2 MPEG audio layer 3 mp3
Musepack mpc Musepack SV8 mpc8 MPEG-1 System format mpeg
MPEG-2 transport stream format (AVCHD) mpegts, m2ts, mts MPEG-2 raw transport stream format mpegtsraw, mpg raw MPEG video mpegvideo, mpg
MSN TCP Webcam stream msnwctcp PCM mu-law format mulaw Motion Pixels MVI format mvi
Material eXchange Format mxf NC camera feed format nc Nullsoft Streaming Video nsv
NUT format nut NuppelVideo format nuv Ogg ogg
Sony OpenMG audio oma Sony Playstation STR format psxstr TechnoTrend PVA file and stream format pva
QCP format qcp REDCODE R3D format r3d raw video format rawvideo
Redirector format redir RL2 format rl2 RealMedia format rm, rvmb
RPL/ARMovie format rpl RTSP input format rtsp PCM signed 16 bit big-endian format s16be
PCM signed 16 bit little-endian format s16le PCM signed 24 bit big-endian format s24be PCM signed 24 bit little-endian format s24le
PCM signed 32 bit big-endian format s32be PCM signed 32 bit little-endian format s32le PCM signed 8 bit format s8
SDP sdp raw Shorten shn Beam Software SIFF siff
Smacker video smk Sierra SOL format sol SoX native format sox
Flash format swf THP thp Tiertex Limited SEQ format tiertexseq
8088flex TMV tmv raw TrueHD truehd True Audio tta
Renderware TeXture Dictionary txd PCM unsigned 16 bit big-endian format u16be PCM unsigned 16 bit little-endian format u16le
PCM unsigned 24 bit big-endian format u24be PCM unsigned 24 bit little-endian format u24le PCM unsigned 32 bit big-endian format u32be
PCM unsigned 32 bit little-endian format u32le PCM unsigned 8 bit format u8 raw VC-1 vc1
VC-1 test bitstream format vc1test VFW video capture vfwcap Sierra VMD format vmd
Creative Voice file format voc Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) TwinVQ vqf WAV format wav
Wing Commander III movie format wc3movie Westwood Studios audio format wsaud Westwood Studios VQA format wsvqa
Microsoft Windows Recorded Video format wtv WavPack wv Maxis XA File Format xa
YUV4MPEG pipe format yuv4mpegpipe MPEG-2 PS format (VOB) vob Bethesda Softworks VID format bethsoftvid
AVI format avi - - - -

Transcoding

Mezzmo can create the following container file formats for streaming to UPnP and DLNA-enabled devices and web browsers. A container file format may contain one or more audio, video, image or subtitle streams within the file.

File Format Identifier/File Extension File Format Identifier/File Extension File Format Identifier/File Extension
3GP2 format 3g2 3GP format 3gp raw id RoQ format RoQ
raw AC-3 ac3 ADTS AAC adts Audio IFF aiff
PCM A-law format alaw 3GPP AMR file format amr ASF format asf
ASF format asf_stream SSA/ASS format ass SUN AU format au
AVI format avi Flash 9 (AVM2) format avm2 CRC testing format crc
D-Cinema audio format daud raw Dirac dirac raw DNxHD (SMPTE VC-3) dnxhd
Delphine Software International CIN format dsicin raw DTS dts DV video format dv
MPEG-2 PS format (DVD VOB) dvd raw E-AC-3 eac3 PCM 32 bit floating-point big-endian format f32be
PCM 32 bit floating-point little-endian format f32le PCM 64 bit floating-point big-endian format f64be PCM 64 bit floating-point little-endian format f64le
FFM (FFserver live feed) format ffm raw FLAC flac FLV format flv
framecrc testing format framecrc GIF Animation gif GXF format gxf
raw H.261 h261 raw H.263 h263 raw H.264 video format h264
image2 sequence image2 piped image2 sequence image2pipe iPod H.264 MP4 format ipod
raw MPEG-4 video format m4v Matroska file format matroska, mkv, mka raw MJPEG video mjpeg, mpg
raw MLP mlp Yamaha SMAF mmf MOV format mov
MPEG audio layer 2 mp2 MPEG audio layer 3 mp3 MP4 format mp4
MPEG-1 System format mpeg raw MPEG-1 video mpeg1video raw MPEG-2 video mpeg2video
MPEG-2 transport stream format (AVCHD) mpegts, m2ts, mts MIME multipart JPEG format mpjpeg PCM mu-law format mulaw
Material eXchange Format mxf Material eXchange Format, D-10 Mapping mxf_d10 raw null video format null
NUT format nut Ogg ogg PSP MP4 format psp
raw video format rawvideo VC-1 test bitstream rcv RealMedia format rm
RTP output format rtp PCM signed 16 bit big-endian format s16be PCM signed 16 bit little-endian format s16le
PCM signed 24 bit big-endian format s24be PCM signed 24 bit little-endian format s24le PCM signed 32 bit big-endian format s32be
PCM signed 32 bit little-endian format s32le PCM signed 8 bit format s8 SoX native format sox
MPEG-2 PS format (VOB) vob Flash format swf raw TrueHD truehd
PCM unsigned 16 bit big-endian format u16be PCM unsigned 16 bit little-endian format u16le PCM unsigned 24 bit big-endian format u24be
PCM unsigned 24 bit little-endian format u24le PCM unsigned 32 bit big-endian format u32be PCM unsigned 32 bit little-endian format u32le
PCM unsigned 8 bit format u8 MPEG-1 System format (VCD) vcd YUV4MPEG pipe format yuv4mpegpipe
Creative Voice file format voc WAV format wav - -