Supported Formats and Codecs

To maximize compatibility, Transloadit supports many popular formats & media codecs such as:

• AAC
• Animated GIF
• DIVX
• FLV
• H263
• H264
• HLS
• JPEG
• MP3
• MP4
• MPEG-DASH
• OGG
• PCM
• PNG
• RAWYUY2
• VP6F
• VP9
• WAV
• WEBM
• WEBP
• WMAV2, WMV1, WMV2, WMV3
• XVID

But that's just a tiny and rather incoherent grab.

The list below should count as a reference for our full current offering, it is actively maintained.

If you do not see your required format or codec listed here, please let us know so we can add it.

Video Codecs

The particular set of Video Codecs that you can use can depend on the version of the underlying encoding tools that Transloadit uses for the following Robots:

• The /audio/concat Robot
• The /audio/encode Robot
• The /audio/loop Robot
• The /audio/merge Robot
• The /meta/write Robot
• The /video/concat Robot
• The /video/encode Robot
• The /video/merge Robot
• The /video/thumbs Robot

Transloadit recommends having: ffmpeg_stack: "v2.2.3" in these Robots' Assembly Instructions. We are intimately aware of how important continuity is for our customers, so stack version upgrades are always opt-in. Stack versions are typically supported for many, many years before we start issuing deprecation warnings (we have been supporting "v1.0.0" for almost 10 years now).

Name	Description	ffmpeg_stack
		Name	Description
				"v1.0.0"		"v2.0.0"		"v2.1.0"		"v2.2.3"
read	write	read	write	read	write	read	write
012v	Uncompressed 4:2:2 10-bit
4xm	4X Movie
8bps	QuickTime 8BPS video
a64_multi	Multicolor charset for Commodore 64 (encoders: a64multi )
a64_multi5	Multicolor charset for Commodore 64, extended with 5th color (colram) (encoders: a64multi5 )
aasc	Autodesk RLE
aic	Apple Intermediate Codec
amv	AMV Video
anm	Deluxe Paint Animation
ansi	ASCII/ANSI art
asv1	ASUS V1
asv2	ASUS V2
aura	Auravision AURA
aura2	Auravision Aura 2
avrn	Avid AVI Codec
avrp	Avid 1:1 10-bit RGB Packer
avs	AVS (Audio Video Standard) video
avui	Avid Meridien Uncompressed
ayuv	Uncompressed packed MS 4:4:4:4
bethsoftvid	Bethesda VID video
bfi	Brute Force & Ignorance
binkvideo	Bink video
bintext	Binary text
bmp	BMP (Windows and OS/2 bitmap)
bmv_video	Discworld II BMV video
brender_pix	BRender PIX image
c93	Interplay C93
cavs	Chinese AVS (Audio Video Standard) (AVS1-P2, JiZhun profile)
cdgraphics	CD Graphics video
cdxl	Commodore CDXL video
cinepak	Cinepak
cljr	Cirrus Logic AccuPak
cllc	Canopus Lossless Codec
cmv	Electronic Arts CMV video (decoders: eacmv )
cpia	CPiA video format
cscd	CamStudio (decoders: camstudio )
cyuv	Creative YUV (CYUV)
dfa	Chronomaster DFA
dirac	Dirac
dnxhd	VC3/DNxHD
dpx	DPX (Digital Picture Exchange) image
dsicinvideo	Delphine Software International CIN video
dvvideo	DV (Digital Video)
dxa	Feeble Files/ScummVM DXA
dxtory	Dxtory
escape124	Escape 124
escape130	Escape 130
exr	OpenEXR image
ffv1	FFmpeg video codec #1
ffvhuff	Huffyuv FFmpeg variant
fic	Mirillis FIC
flashsv	Flash Screen Video v1
flashsv2	Flash Screen Video v2
flic	Autodesk Animator Flic video
flv1	FLV / Sorenson Spark / Sorenson H.263 (Flash Video) (decoders: flv ) (encoders: flv )
fraps	Fraps
frwu	Forward Uncompressed
g2m	Go2Meeting
gif	GIF (Graphics Interchange Format)
h261	H.261
h263	H.263 / H.263-1996, H.263+ / H.263-1998 / H.263 version 2
h263i	Intel H.263
h263p	H.263+ / H.263-1998 / H.263 version 2
h264	H.264 / AVC / MPEG-4 AVC / MPEG-4 part 10 (encoders: libx264 libx264rgb )
hevc	H.265 / HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding)
hnm4video	HNM 4 video
huffyuv	HuffYUV
idcin	id Quake II CIN video (decoders: idcinvideo )
idf	iCEDraw text
iff_byterun1	IFF ByteRun1 (decoders: iff )
iff_ilbm	IFF ILBM (decoders: iff )
indeo2	Intel Indeo 2
indeo3	Intel Indeo 3
indeo4	Intel Indeo Video Interactive 4
indeo5	Intel Indeo Video Interactive 5
interplayvideo	Interplay MVE video
jpeg2000	JPEG 2000 (decoders: jpeg2000 libopenjpeg ) (encoders: jpeg2000 libopenjpeg )
jpegls	JPEG-LS
jv	Bitmap Brothers JV video
kgv1	Kega Game Video
kmvc	Karl Morton's video codec
lagarith	Lagarith lossless
ljpeg	Lossless JPEG
loco	LOCO
mad	Electronic Arts Madcow Video (decoders: eamad )
mdec	Sony PlayStation MDEC (Motion DECoder)
mimic	Mimic
mjpeg	Motion JPEG
mjpegb	Apple MJPEG-B
mmvideo	American Laser Games MM Video
motionpixels	Motion Pixels video
mpeg1video	MPEG-1 video
mpeg2video	MPEG-2 video (decoders: mpeg2video mpegvideo )
mpeg4	MPEG-4 part 2 (encoders: mpeg4 libxvid )
mpegvideo_xvmc	MPEG-1/2 video XvMC (X-Video Motion Compensation)
msa1	MS ATC Screen
msmpeg4v1	MPEG-4 part 2 Microsoft variant version 1
msmpeg4v2	MPEG-4 part 2 Microsoft variant version 2
msmpeg4v3	MPEG-4 part 2 Microsoft variant version 3 (decoders: msmpeg4 ) (encoders: msmpeg4 )
msrle	Microsoft RLE
mss1	MS Screen 1
mss2	MS Windows Media Video V9 Screen
msvideo1	Microsoft Video 1
mszh	LCL (LossLess Codec Library) MSZH
mts2	MS Expression Encoder Screen
mvc1	Silicon Graphics Motion Video Compressor 1
mvc2	Silicon Graphics Motion Video Compressor 2
mxpeg	Mobotix MxPEG video
nuv	NuppelVideo/RTJPEG
paf_video	Amazing Studio Packed Animation File Video
pam	PAM (Portable AnyMap) image
pbm	PBM (Portable BitMap) image
pcx	PC Paintbrush PCX image
pgm	PGM (Portable GrayMap) image
pgmyuv	PGMYUV (Portable GrayMap YUV) image
pictor	Pictor/PC Paint
png	PNG (Portable Network Graphics) image
ppm	PPM (Portable PixelMap) image
prores	Apple ProRes (iCodec Pro) (decoders: prores prores_lgpl ) (encoders: prores prores_aw prores_ks )
ptx	V.Flash PTX image
qdraw	Apple QuickDraw
qpeg	Q-team QPEG
qtrle	QuickTime Animation (RLE) video
r10k	AJA Kona 10-bit RGB Codec
r210	Uncompressed RGB 10-bit
rawvideo	raw video
rl2	RL2 video
roq	id RoQ video (decoders: roqvideo ) (encoders: roqvideo )
rpza	QuickTime video (RPZA)
rv10	RealVideo 1.0
rv20	RealVideo 2.0
rv30	RealVideo 3.0
rv40	RealVideo 4.0
sanm	LucasArts SMUSH video
sgi	SGI image
sgirle	SGI RLE 8-bit
smackvideo	Smacker video (decoders: smackvid )
smc	QuickTime Graphics (SMC)
snow	Snow
sp5x	Sunplus JPEG (SP5X)
sunrast	Sun Rasterfile image
svq1	Sorenson Vector Quantizer 1 / Sorenson Video 1 / SVQ1
svq3	Sorenson Vector Quantizer 3 / Sorenson Video 3 / SVQ3
targa	Truevision Targa image
targa_y216	Pinnacle TARGA CineWave YUV16
tgq	Electronic Arts TGQ video (decoders: eatgq )
tgv	Electronic Arts TGV video (decoders: eatgv )
theora	Theora (encoders: libtheora )
thp	Nintendo Gamecube THP video
tiertexseqvideo	Tiertex Limited SEQ video
tiff	TIFF image
tmv	8088flex TMV
tqi	Electronic Arts TQI video (decoders: eatqi )
truemotion1	Duck TrueMotion 1.0
truemotion2	Duck TrueMotion 2.0
tscc	TechSmith Screen Capture Codec (decoders: camtasia )
tscc2	TechSmith Screen Codec 2
txd	Renderware TXD (TeXture Dictionary) image
ulti	IBM UltiMotion (decoders: ultimotion )
utvideo	Ut Video
v210	Uncompressed 4:2:2 10-bit
v210x
v308	Uncompressed packed 4:4:4
v408	Uncompressed packed QT 4:4:4:4
v410	Uncompressed 4:4:4 10-bit
vb	Beam Software VB
vble	VBLE Lossless Codec
vc1	SMPTE VC-1
vc1image	Windows Media Video 9 Image v2
vcr1	ATI VCR1
vixl	Miro VideoXL (decoders: xl )
vmdvideo	Sierra VMD video
vmnc	VMware Screen Codec / VMware Video
vp3	On2 VP3
vp5	On2 VP5
vp6	On2 VP6
vp6a	On2 VP6 (Flash version, with alpha channel)
vp6f	On2 VP6 (Flash version)
vp8	On2 VP8 (decoders: vp8 libvpx ) (encoders: libvpx )
vp9	Google VP9 (decoders: vp9 libvpx-vp9 ) (encoders: libvpx-vp9 )
webp	WebP
wmv1	Windows Media Video 7
wmv2	Windows Media Video 8
wmv3	Windows Media Video 9
wmv3image	Windows Media Video 9 Image
wnv1	Winnov WNV1
ws_vqa	Westwood Studios VQA (Vector Quantized Animation) video (decoders: vqavideo )
xan_wc3	Wing Commander III / Xan
xan_wc4	Wing Commander IV / Xxan
xbin	eXtended BINary text
xbm	XBM (X BitMap) image
xface	X-face image
xwd	XWD (X Window Dump) image
y41p	Uncompressed YUV 4:1:1 12-bit
yop	Psygnosis YOP Video
yuv4	Uncompressed packed 4:2:0
zerocodec	ZeroCodec Lossless Video
zlib	LCL (LossLess Codec Library) ZLIB
zmbv	Zip Motion Blocks Video

Audio Codecs

The particular set of Audio Codecs that you can use can depend on the version of the underlying encoding tools that Transloadit uses for the following Robots:

• The /audio/concat Robot
• The /audio/encode Robot
• The /audio/loop Robot
• The /audio/merge Robot
• The /meta/write Robot
• The /video/concat Robot
• The /video/encode Robot
• The /video/merge Robot
• The /video/thumbs Robot

Transloadit recommends having: ffmpeg_stack: "v2.2.3" in these Robots' Assembly Instructions. We are intimately aware of how important continuity is for our customers, so stack version upgrades are always opt-in. Stack versions are typically supported for many, many years before we start issuing deprecation warnings (we have been supporting "v1.0.0" for almost 10 years now).

Name	Description	ffmpeg_stack
		Name	Description
				"v1.0.0"		"v2.0.0"		"v2.1.0"		"v2.2.3"
read	write	read	write	read	write	read	write
8svx_exp	8SVX exponential
8svx_fib	8SVX fibonacci
aac	AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) (decoders: aac libfdk_aac ) (encoders: aac libfaac libfdk_aac libvo_aacenc )
aac_latm	AAC LATM (Advanced Audio Coding LATM syntax)
ac3	ATSC A/52A (AC-3) (encoders: ac3 ac3_fixed )
adpcm_4xm	ADPCM 4X Movie
adpcm_adx	SEGA CRI ADX ADPCM
adpcm_afc	ADPCM Nintendo Gamecube AFC
adpcm_ct	ADPCM Creative Technology
adpcm_dtk	ADPCM Nintendo Gamecube DTK
adpcm_ea	ADPCM Electronic Arts
adpcm_ea_maxis_xa	ADPCM Electronic Arts Maxis CDROM XA
adpcm_ea_r1	ADPCM Electronic Arts R1
adpcm_ea_r2	ADPCM Electronic Arts R2
adpcm_ea_r3	ADPCM Electronic Arts R3
adpcm_ea_xas	ADPCM Electronic Arts XAS
adpcm_g722	G.722 ADPCM (decoders: g722 ) (encoders: g722 )
adpcm_g726	G.726 ADPCM (decoders: g726 ) (encoders: g726 )
adpcm_g726le	G.726 ADPCM little-endian (decoders: g726le )
adpcm_ima_amv	ADPCM IMA AMV
adpcm_ima_apc	ADPCM IMA CRYO APC
adpcm_ima_dk3	ADPCM IMA Duck DK3
adpcm_ima_dk4	ADPCM IMA Duck DK4
adpcm_ima_ea_eacs	ADPCM IMA Electronic Arts EACS
adpcm_ima_ea_sead	ADPCM IMA Electronic Arts SEAD
adpcm_ima_iss	ADPCM IMA Funcom ISS
adpcm_ima_oki	ADPCM IMA Dialogic OKI
adpcm_ima_qt	ADPCM IMA QuickTime
adpcm_ima_rad	ADPCM IMA Radical
adpcm_ima_smjpeg	ADPCM IMA Loki SDL MJPEG
adpcm_ima_wav	ADPCM IMA WAV
adpcm_ima_ws	ADPCM IMA Westwood
adpcm_ms	ADPCM Microsoft
adpcm_sbpro_2	ADPCM Sound Blaster Pro 2-bit
adpcm_sbpro_3	ADPCM Sound Blaster Pro 2.6-bit
adpcm_sbpro_4	ADPCM Sound Blaster Pro 4-bit
adpcm_swf	ADPCM Shockwave Flash
adpcm_thp	ADPCM Nintendo Gamecube THP
adpcm_xa	ADPCM CDROM XA
adpcm_yamaha	ADPCM Yamaha
alac	ALAC (Apple Lossless Audio Codec)
amr_nb	AMR-NB (Adaptive Multi-Rate NarrowBand) (decoders: amrnb )
amr_wb	AMR-WB (Adaptive Multi-Rate WideBand) (decoders: amrwb ) (encoders: libvo_amrwbenc )
ape	Monkey's Audio
atrac1	ATRAC1 (Adaptive TRansform Acoustic Coding)
atrac3	ATRAC3 (Adaptive TRansform Acoustic Coding 3)
atrac3p	ATRAC3+ (Adaptive TRansform Acoustic Coding 3+) (decoders: atrac3plus )
binkaudio_dct	Bink Audio (DCT)
binkaudio_rdft	Bink Audio (RDFT)
bmv_audio	Discworld II BMV audio
celt	Constrained Energy Lapped Transform (CELT)
comfortnoise	RFC 3389 Comfort Noise
cook	Cook / Cooker / Gecko (RealAudio G2)
dsicinaudio	Delphine Software International CIN audio
dts	DCA (DTS Coherent Acoustics) (decoders: dca ) (encoders: dca )
dvaudio
eac3	ATSC A/52B (AC-3, E-AC-3)
evrc	EVRC (Enhanced Variable Rate Codec)
flac	FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec)
g723_1	G.723.1
g729	G.729
gsm	GSM
gsm_ms	GSM Microsoft variant