Supported Video Codecs

The following list shows a good sample of supported video formats:






















































































Supported Codec Encoding Decoding Comments
MPEG-1 video X X
MPEG-2 video X X
MPEG-4 X X
MSMPEG4 V1 X X
MSMPEG4 V2 X X
MSMPEG4 V3 X X
WMV7 X X
WMV8 X X not completely working
WMV9 X not completely working
VC1 X
H.261 X X
H.263(+) X X also known as RealVideo 1.0
H.264 X
RealVideo 1.0 X X
RealVideo 2.0 X X
MJPEG X X
lossless MJPEG X X
JPEG-LS X X fourcc: MJLS, lossless and near-lossless is supported
Apple MJPEG-B X
Sunplus MJPEG X fourcc: SP5X
DV X X
HuffYUV X X
FFmpeg Video 1 X X experimental lossless codec (fourcc: FFV1)
FFmpeg Snow X X experimental wavelet codec (fourcc: SNOW)
Asus v1 X X fourcc: ASV1
Asus v2 X X fourcc: ASV2
Creative YUV X fourcc: CYUV
Sorenson Video 1 X X fourcc: SVQ1
Sorenson Video 3 X fourcc: SVQ3
On2 VP3 X still experimental
On2 VP5 X fourcc: VP50
On2 VP6 X fourcc: VP60,VP61,VP62
Theora X X still experimental
Intel Indeo 3 X
FLV X X Sorenson H.263 used in Flash
Flash Screen Video X X fourcc: FSV1
ATI VCR1 X fourcc: VCR1
ATI VCR2 X fourcc: VCR2
Cirrus Logic AccuPak X fourcc: CLJR
4X Video X Used in certain computer games.
Sony Playstation MDEC X
Id RoQ X X Used in Quake III, Jedi Knight 2, other computer games.
Xan/WC3 X Used in Wing Commander III .MVE files.
Interplay Video X Used in Interplay .MVE files.
Apple Animation X X fourcc: 'rle '
Apple Graphics X fourcc: 'smc '
Apple Video X fourcc: rpza
Apple QuickDraw X fourcc: qdrw
Cinepak X
Microsoft RLE X
Microsoft Video-1 X
Westwood VQA X
Id Cinematic Video X Used in Quake II.
Planar RGB X fourcc: 8BPS
FLIC video X
Duck TrueMotion v1 X fourcc: DUCK
Duck TrueMotion v2 X fourcc: TM20
VMD Video X Used in Sierra VMD files.
MSZH X Part of LCL
ZLIB X X Part of LCL, encoder experimental
TechSmith Camtasia X fourcc: TSCC
IBM Ultimotion X fourcc: ULTI
Miro VideoXL X fourcc: VIXL
QPEG X fourccs: QPEG, Q1.0, Q1.1
LOCO X
Winnov WNV1 X
Autodesk Animator Studio Codec X fourcc: AASC
Fraps FPS1 X
CamStudio X fourcc: CSCD
American Laser Games Video X Used in games like Mad Dog McCree
ZMBV X X Encoder works only on PAL8
AVS Video X Video encoding used by the Creature Shock game.
Smacker Video X Video encoding used in Smacker.
RTjpeg X Video encoding used in NuppelVideo files.
KMVC X Codec used in Worms games.
VMware Video X Codec used in videos captured by VMware.
Cin Video X Codec used in Delphine Software games.
Tiertex Seq Video X Codec used in DOS CDROM FlashBack game.
DXA Video X Codec originally used in Feeble Files game.
AVID DNxHD X X aka SMPTE VC3
C93 Video X Codec used in Cyberia game.
THP X Used on the Nintendo GameCube.
Bethsoft VID X Used in some games from Bethesda Softworks.
Renderware TXD X Texture dictionaries used by the Renderware Engine.
AMV X Used in Chinese MP3 players.


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