File formats: E 3g2 3GP2 format E 3gp 3GP format D 4xm 4X Technologies format D IFF IFF format D MTV MTV format DE RoQ id RoQ format D aac ADTS AAC DE ac3 raw AC-3 E adts ADTS AAC DE aiff Audio IFF DE alaw pcm A law format DE amr 3GPP AMR file format D apc CRYO APC format D ape Monkey's Audio DE asf ASF format E asf_stream ASF format DE au SUN AU format DE avi AVI format E avm2 Flash 9 (AVM2) format D avs AVISynth D bethsoftvid Bethesda Softworks VID format D bfi Brute Force & Ignorance D c93 Interplay C93 E crc CRC testing format D daud D-Cinema audio format DE dirac raw Dirac D dsicin Delphine Software International CIN format DE dts raw DTS DE dv DV video format E dvd MPEG-2 PS format (DVD VOB) D dxa DXA D ea Electronic Arts Multimedia Format D ea_cdata Electronic Arts cdata DE ffm ffm format D film_cpk Sega FILM/CPK format DE flac raw FLAC D flic FLI/FLC/FLX animation format DE flv FLV format E framecrc framecrc testing format DE gif GIF Animation D gsm GSM DE gxf GXF format DE h261 raw H.261 DE h263 raw H.263 DE h264 raw H.264 video format D idcin id CIN format DE image2 image2 sequence DE image2pipe piped image2 sequence D ingenient Ingenient MJPEG D ipmovie Interplay MVE format E ipod iPod H.264 MP4 format D lmlm4 lmlm4 raw format DE m4v raw MPEG-4 video format DE matroska Matroska file format DE mjpeg MJPEG video D mlp raw MLP D mm American Laser Games MM format DE mmf mmf format E mov MOV format D mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 QuickTime/MPEG-4/Motion JPEG 2000 format E mp2 MPEG audio layer 2 DE mp3 MPEG audio layer 3 E mp4 MP4 format D mpc Musepack D mpc8 Musepack SV8 DE mpeg MPEG-1 System format E mpeg1video MPEG video E mpeg2video MPEG-2 video DE mpegts MPEG-2 transport stream format D mpegtsraw MPEG-2 raw transport stream format D mpegvideo MPEG video E mpjpeg Mime multipart JPEG format D msnwctcp MSN TCP Webcam stream DE mulaw pcm mu law format D mxf MXF format D nsv NullSoft Video format E null null video format DE nut NUT format D nuv NuppelVideo format DE ogg Ogg D oma Sony OpenMG audio E psp PSP MP4 format D psxstr Sony Playstation STR format D pva TechnoTrend PVA file and stream format DE rawvideo raw video format D redir Redirector format D rl2 rl2 format DE rm RM format D rpl RPL/ARMovie format E rtp RTP output format D rtsp RTSP input format DE s16be pcm signed 16 bit big endian format DE s16le pcm signed 16 bit little endian format DE s8 pcm signed 8 bit format D sdp SDP D shn raw Shorten D siff Beam Software SIFF D smk Smacker video D sol Sierra SOL format E svcd MPEG-2 PS format (VOB) DE swf Flash format D thp THP D tiertexseq Tiertex Limited SEQ format D tta True Audio D txd txd format DE u16be pcm unsigned 16 bit big endian format DE u16le pcm unsigned 16 bit little endian format DE u8 pcm unsigned 8 bit format D vc1 raw VC-1 D vc1test VC-1 test bitstream format E vcd MPEG-1 System format (VCD) D vfwcap VFW video capture D vmd Sierra VMD format E vob MPEG-2 PS format (VOB) DE voc Creative Voice file format DE wav WAV format D wc3movie Wing Commander III movie format D wsaud Westwood Studios audio format D wsvqa Westwood Studios VQA format D wv WavPack D xa Maxis XA File Format DE yuv4mpegpipe YUV4MPEG pipe format Codecs: D V 4xm 4X Movie D V D 8bps QuickTime 8BPS video D A 8svx_exp 8SVX exponential D A 8svx_fib 8SVX fibonacci D V D aasc Autodesk RLE EA ac3 ATSC A/52 / AC-3 D A adpcm_4xm 4X Movie ADPCM DEA adpcm_adx SEGA CRI ADX D A adpcm_ct Creative Technology ADPCM D A adpcm_ea Electronic Arts ADPCM D A adpcm_ea_maxis_xa Electronic Arts Maxis CDROM XA ADPCM D A adpcm_ea_r1 Electronic Arts R1 ADPCM D A adpcm_ea_r2 Electronic Arts R2 ADPCM D A adpcm_ea_r3 Electronic Arts R3 ADPCM D A adpcm_ea_xas Electronic Arts XAS ADPCM D A adpcm_ima_amv IMA AMV ADPCM D A adpcm_ima_dk3 IMA Duck DK3 ADPCM D A adpcm_ima_dk4 IMA Duck DK4 ADPCM D A adpcm_ima_ea_eacs IMA Electronic Arts EACS ADPCM D A adpcm_ima_ea_sead IMA Electronic Arts SEAD ADPCM DEA adpcm_ima_qt IMA QuickTime ADPCM D A adpcm_ima_smjpeg IMA Loki SDL MJPEG ADPCM DEA adpcm_ima_wav IMA Wav ADPCM D A adpcm_ima_ws IMA Westwood ADPCM DEA adpcm_ms Microsoft ADPCM D A adpcm_sbpro_2 Sound Blaster Pro 2-bit ADPCM D A adpcm_sbpro_3 Sound Blaster Pro 2.6-bit ADPCM D A adpcm_sbpro_4 Sound Blaster Pro 4-bit ADPCM DEA adpcm_swf Shockwave Flash ADPCM D A adpcm_thp Nintendo Gamecube THP ADPCM D A adpcm_xa CDROM XA ADPCM DEA adpcm_yamaha Yamaha ADPCM D A alac ALAC (Apple Lossless Audio Codec) D V amv AMV Video D A ape Monkey's Audio DEV D asv1 ASUS V1 DEV D asv2 ASUS V2 D A atrac3 Atrac 3 (Adaptive TRansform Acoustic Coding 3) D V D avs AVS (Audio Video Standard) video D V bethsoftvid Bethesda VID video D V bfi Brute Force & Ignorance DEV bmp BMP image D V D c93 Interplay C93 D V D camstudio CamStudio D V D camtasia TechSmith Screen Capture Codec D V D cavs Chinese AVS video (AVS1-P2, JiZhun profile) D V D cinepak Cinepak D V D cljr Cirrus Logic AccuPak D A cook COOK D V D cyuv Creative YUV (CYUV) D A dca DCA (DTS Coherent Acoustics) DEV D dnxhd VC3/DNxHD D A dsicinaudio Delphine Software International CIN audio D V D dsicinvideo Delphine Software International CIN video DES dvbsub DVB subtitles DES dvdsub DVD subtitles DEV D dvvideo DV (Digital Video) D V dxa Feeble Files/ScummVM DXA D V D escape124 Escape 124 DEV D ffv1 FFmpeg codec #1 DEVSD ffvhuff Huffyuv FFmpeg variant DEA flac FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) DEV D flashsv Flash Screen Video D V D flic Autodesk Animator Flic video DEVSD flv Flash Video D V D fraps Fraps DEA g726 G.726 ADPCM DEV gif GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) DEV D h261 H.261 DEVSDT h263 H.263 D VSD h263i H.263i EV h263p H.263+ / H.263 version 2 D V DT h264 H.264 / AVC / MPEG-4 AVC / MPEG-4 part 10 DEVSD huffyuv Huffyuv / HuffYUV D V D idcinvideo id Quake II CIN video D A imc IMC (Intel Music Coder) D V D indeo2 Intel Indeo 2 D V indeo3 Intel Indeo 3 D A interplay_dpcm Interplay DPCM D V D interplayvideo Interplay MVE Video DEV D jpegls JPEG-LS D V kmvc Karl Morton's video codec D A liba52 liba52 ATSC A/52 / AC-3 EA libfaac libfaac AAC (Advanced Audio Codec) D A libfaad libfaad AAC (Advanced Audio Codec) DEA libgsm libgsm GSM DEA libgsm_ms libgsm GSM Microsoft variant EA libmp3lame libmp3lame MP3 (MPEG audio layer 3) EV libtheora libtheora Theora EA libvorbis libvorbis Vorbis EV libx264 libx264 H.264 / AVC / MPEG-4 AVC / MPEG-4 part 10 EV libxvid libxvidcore MPEG-4 part 2 EV ljpeg Lossless JPEG D V D loco LOCO D A mace3 MACE (Macintosh Audio Compression/Expansion) 3:1 D A mace6 MACE (Macintosh Audio Compression/Expansion) 6:1 D V D mdec Sony PlayStation MDEC (Motion DECoder) D V D mimic Mimic DEV D mjpeg MJPEG (Motion JPEG) D V D mjpegb Apple MJPEG-B D V D mmvideo American Laser Games MM Video DEA mp2 MP2 (MPEG audio layer 2) D A mp3 MP3 (MPEG audio layer 3) D A mp3adu ADU (Application Data Unit) MP3 (MPEG audio layer 3) D A mp3on4 MP3onMP4 D A mpc7 Musepack SV7 D A mpc8 Musepack SV8 DEVSDT mpeg1video MPEG-1 video DEVSDT mpeg2video MPEG-2 video DEVSDT mpeg4 MPEG-4 part 2 D A mpeg4aac libfaad AAC (Advanced Audio Codec) D VSDT mpegvideo MPEG-1 video DEVSD msmpeg4 MPEG-4 part 2 Microsoft variant version 3 DEVSD msmpeg4v1 MPEG-4 part 2 Microsoft variant version 1 DEVSD msmpeg4v2 MPEG-4 part 2 Microsoft variant version 2 D V D msrle Microsoft RLE D V D msvideo1 Microsoft Video 1 D V D mszh LCL (LossLess Codec Library) MSZH D A nellymoser Nellymoser Asao D V D nuv NuppelVideo DEV pam PAM (Portable AnyMap) image DEV pbm PBM (Portable BitMap) image DEA pcm_alaw A-law PCM D A pcm_dvd signed 16|20|24-bit big-endian PCM DEA pcm_mulaw mu-law PCM DEA pcm_s16be signed 16-bit big-endian PCM DEA pcm_s16le signed 16-bit little-endian PCM D A pcm_s16le_planar 16-bit little-endian planar PCM DEA pcm_s24be signed 24-bit big-endian PCM DEA pcm_s24daud D-Cinema audio signed 24-bit PCM DEA pcm_s24le signed 24-bit little-endian PCM DEA pcm_s32be signed 32-bit big-endian PCM DEA pcm_s32le signed 32-bit little-endian PCM DEA pcm_s8 signed 8-bit PCM DEA pcm_u16be unsigned 16-bit big-endian PCM DEA pcm_u16le unsigned 16-bit little-endian PCM DEA pcm_u24be unsigned 24-bit big-endian PCM DEA pcm_u24le unsigned 24-bit little-endian PCM DEA pcm_u32be unsigned 32-bit big-endian PCM DEA pcm_u32le unsigned 32-bit little-endian PCM DEA pcm_u8 unsigned 8-bit PCM DEA pcm_zork Zork PCM D V pcx PC Paintbrush PCX image DEV pgm PGM (Portable GrayMap) image DEV pgmyuv PGMYUV (Portable GrayMap YUV) image DEV png PNG image DEV ppm PPM (Portable PixelMap) image D V ptx V.Flash PTX image D A qdm2 QDesign Music Codec 2 D V D qdraw Apple QuickDraw D V D qpeg Q-team QPEG DEV D qtrle QuickTime Animation (RLE) video DEV rawvideo raw video D A real_144 RealAudio 1.0 (14.4K) D A real_288 RealAudio 2.0 (28.8K) D V D rl2 RL2 video DEA roq_dpcm id RoQ DPCM DEV D roqvideo id RoQ video D V D rpza QuickTime video (RPZA) DEV D rv10 RealVideo 1.0 DEV D rv20 RealVideo 2.0 DEV sgi SGI image D A shorten Shorten D A smackaud Smacker audio D V smackvid Smacker video D V D smc QuickTime Graphics (SMC) DEV snow Snow D A sol_dpcm Sol DPCM DEA sonic Sonic EA sonicls Sonic lossless D V D sp5x Sunplus JPEG (SP5X) D V sunrast Sun Rasterfile image DEV D svq1 Sorenson Vector Quantizer 1 D VSD svq3 Sorenson Vector Quantizer 3 DEV targa Truevision Targa image D V theora Theora D V D thp Nintendo Gamecube THP video D V D tiertexseqvideo Tiertex Limited SEQ video DEV tiff TIFF image D V D truemotion1 Duck TrueMotion 1.0 D V D truemotion2 Duck TrueMotion 2.0 D A truespeech DSP Group TrueSpeech D A tta True Audio D V txd Renderware TXD (TeXture Dictionary) image D V D ultimotion IBM UltiMotion D V vb Beam Software VB D V vc1 SMPTE VC-1 D V D vcr1 ATI VCR1 D A vmdaudio Sierra VMD audio D V D vmdvideo Sierra VMD video D V vmnc VMware Screen Codec / VMware Video DEA vorbis Vorbis D V vp3 On2 VP3 D V D vp5 On2 VP5 D V D vp6 On2 VP6 D V D vp6a On2 VP6 (Flash version, with alpha channel) D V D vp6f On2 VP6 (Flash version) D V D vqavideo Westwood Studios VQA (Vector Quantized Animation) video D A wavpack WavPack DEA wmav1 Windows Media Audio 1 DEA wmav2 Windows Media Audio 2 DEVSD wmv1 Windows Media Video 7 DEVSD wmv2 Windows Media Video 8 D V wmv3 Windows Media Video 9 D V D wnv1 Winnov WNV1 D A ws_snd1 Westwood Audio (SND1) D A xan_dpcm Xan DPCM D V D xan_wc3 Wing Commander III / Xan D V D xl Miro VideoXL D S xsub XSUB DEV D zlib LCL (LossLess Codec Library) ZLIB DEV zmbv Zip Motion Blocks Video Bitstream filters: text2movsub remove_extra noise mov2textsub mp3decomp mp3comp mjpegadump imxdump h264_mp4toannexb dump_extra Supported file protocols: file: http: pipe: rtp: tcp: udp: Frame size, frame rate abbreviations: ntsc pal qntsc qpal sntsc spal film ntsc-film sqcif qcif cif 4cif Note, the names of encoders and decoders do not always match, so there are several cases where the above table shows encoder only or decoder only entries even though both encoding and decoding are supported. For example, the h263 decoder corresponds to the h263 and h263p encoders, for file formats it is even worse. FFmpeg version SVN-r13712, Copyright (c) 2000-2008 Fabrice Bellard, et al. configuration: --enable-memalign-hack --enable-avisynth --enable-libxvid --enable-libx264 --enable-libgsm --enable-libfaac --enable-libfaad --enable-liba52 --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libvorbis --enable-libtheora --enable-pthreads --enable-swscale --enable-gpl libavutil version: 49.7.0 libavcodec version: 51.57.2 libavformat version: 52.14.0 libavdevice version: 52.0.0 built on Jun 8 2008 21:33:14, gcc: 4.2.3