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Supported FFMPEG File Formats:

You can use the -formats option to have an exhaustive list. FFmpeg supports the following file formats through the libavformat library: Please visit for latest file format and codecs on ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg-doc.html

  • MPEG audio
  • MPEG-1 systems (muxed audio and video)
  • MPEG-2 PS (also known as VOB file )
  • MPEG-2 TS (also known as DVB Transport Stream )
  • ASF
  • AVI
  • WAV
  • Macromedia Flash (Only embedded audio is decoded.)
  • FLV (Macromedia Flash video files )
  • Real Audio and Video
  • Raw AC3
  • Raw MJPEG
  • Raw MPEG video
  • Raw PCM8/16 bits, mulaw/Alaw
  • Raw CRI ADX audio
  • Raw Shorten audio
  • SUN AU format
  • NUT (NUT Open Container Format)
  • QuickTime
  • MPEG-4 (MPEG-4 is a variant of QuickTime. )
  • Raw MPEG4 video
  • DV
  • 4xm (4X Technologies format, used in some games. )
  • Playstation STR
  • Id RoQ (Used in Quake III, Jedi Knight 2, other computer games. )
  • Interplay MVE (Format used in various Interplay computer games. )
  • WC3 Movie (Multimedia format used in Origin's Wing Commander III computer game. )
  • Sega FILM/CPK (Used in many Sega Saturn console games. )
  • Westwood Studios VQA/AUD (Multimedia formats used in Westwood Studios games. )
  • Id Cinematic (.cin) (Used in Quake II. )
  • FLIC format (.fli/.flc files )
  • Sierra VMD (Used in Sierra CD-ROM games. )
  • Sierra Online (.sol files used in Sierra Online games. )
  • Matroska
  • Electronic Arts Multimedia (Used in various EA games; files have extensions like WVE and UV2)
  • Nullsoft Video (NSV) format
  • ADTS AAC audio
  • Creative VOC (Created for the Sound Blaster Pro.)
  • American Laser Games MM (Multimedia format used in games like Mad Dog McCree )
  • AVS (Multimedia format used by the Creature Shock game. )
  • Smacker (Multimedia format used by many games. )
  • GXF (General eXchange Format SMPTE 360M, used by Thomson Grass Valley playout servers.)
  • CIN (Multimedia format used by Delphine Software games. )
  • MXF (Material eXchange Format SMPTE 377M, used by D-Cinema, broadcast industry. )
  • SEQ ( Tiertex .seq files used in the DOS CDROM version of the game Flashback. )

 

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