| MEDIA STREAM MONITORING CODECS* | ||
| D….. | = Decoding supported | |
| .E…. | = Encoding supported | |
| ..V… | = Video codec | |
| ..A… | = Audio codec | |
| ..S… | = Subtitle codec | |
| …S.. | = Supports draw_horiz_band | |
| ….D. | = Supports direct rendering method 1 | |
| …..T | = Supports weird frame truncation | |
| Codec | Description | |
| D V D | 4xm | 4X Movie |
| D V D | 8bps | QuickTime 8BPS video |
| D A D | 8svx_exp | 8SVX exponential |
| D A D | 8svx_fib | 8SVX fibonacci |
| EV | a64multi | Multicolor charset for Commodore 64 |
| EV | a64multi5 | Multicolor charset Commodore 64, ext w/ 5th color (colram) |
| DEA D | aac | Advanced Audio Coding |
| D A D | aac_latm | AAC LATM (Advanced Aud io Code c L ATM syntax) |
| D V D | aasc | Autodesk RLE |
| DEA D | ac3 | ATSC A/52A (AC-3) |
| EA | ac3_fixed | ATSC A/52A (AC-3) |
| D A D | adpcm_4xm | ADPCM 4X Movie |
| DEA D | adpcm_adx | SEGA CRI ADX ADPCM |
| D A D | adpcm_ct | ADPCM Creative Technol ogy |
| D A D | adpcm_ea | ADPCM Electronic Arts |
| D A D | adpcm_ea_maxis_xa | ADPCM Electronic Art s Maxis CD ROM XA |
| D A D | adpcm_ea_r1 | ADPCM Electronic Arts R1 |
| D A D | adpcm_ea_r2 | ADPCM Electronic Arts R2 |
| D A D | adpcm_ea_r3 | ADPCM Electronic Arts R3 |
| D A D | adpcm_ea_xas | ADPCM Electronic Arts XAS |
| D A D | adpcm_ima_amv | ADPCM IMA AMV |
| D A D | adpcm_ima_apc | ADPCM IMA CRYO APC |
| D A D | adpcm_ima_dk3 | ADPCM IMA Duck DK3 |
| D A D | adpcm_ima_dk4 | ADPCM IMA Duck DK4 |
| D A D | adpcm_ima_ea_eacs | ADPCM IMA Electronic Arts E ACS |
| D A D | adpcm_ima_ea_sead | ADPCM IMA Electronic Arts S EAD |
| D A D | adpcm_ima_iss | ADPCM IMA Funcom ISS |
| DEA D | adpcm_ima_qt | ADPCM IMA QuickTime |
| D A D | adpcm_ima_smjpeg | ADPCM IMA Loki SDL MJ PEG |
| DEA D | adpcm_ima_wav | ADPCM IMA WAV |
| D A D | adpcm_ima_ws | ADPCM IMA Westwood |
| DEAD | adpcm_ms | ADPCM Microsoft |
| D A D | adpcm_sbpro_2 | ADPCM Sound Blaster Pr o 2-bit |
| D A D | adpcm_sbpro_3 | ADPCM Sound Blaster Pr o 2.6-b it |
| D A D | adpcm_sbpro_4 | ADPCM Sound Blaster Pr o 4-bit |
| DEA D | adpcm_swf | ADPCM Shockwave Flash |
| D A D | adpcm_thp | ADPCM Nintendo Gamecub e THP |
| D A D | adpcm_xa | ADPCM CDROM XA |
| DEA D | adpcm_yamaha | ADPCM Yamaha |
| DEA D | alac | ALAC (Apple Lossless A udio Co dec ) |
| D A D | als | MPEG-4 Audio Lossless Coding (AL S) |
| D A D | amrnb | Adaptive Multi-Rate Na rrowBan d |
| D A D | amrwb | Adaptive Multi-Rate Wi deBand |
| DEV | amv | AMV Video |
| D V D | anm | Deluxe Paint Animation |
| D V D | ansi | ASCII/ANSI art |
| D A D | ape | Monkey’s Audio |
| DES | ass | Advanced SubStation Al pha sub tit le |
| DEV D | asv1 | ASUS V1 |
| DEV D | asv2 | ASUS V2 |
| D A D | atrac1 | Atrac 1 (Adaptive TRan sform A cou stic Coding) |
| D A D | atrac3 | Atrac 3 (Adaptive TRan sform A cou stic Coding 3) |
| D V D | aura | Auravision AURA |
| D V D | aura2 | Auravision Aura 2 |
| DEV D | avrp | Avid 1:1 10-bit RGB Pa cker |
| D V D | avs | AVS (Audio Video Stand ard) vi deo |
| DEV D | ayuv | Uncompressed packed MS 0.169490740740741 4 |
| D V D | bethsoftvid | Bethesda VID video |
| D V D | bfi | Brute Force & Ignoranc e |
| D A D | binkaudio_dct | Bink Audio (DCT) |
| D A D | binkaudio_rdft | Bink Audio (RDFT) |
| D V | binkvideo | Bink video |
| D V D | bintext | Binary text |
| DEV D | bmp | BMP image |
| D A D | bmv_audio | Discworld II BMV audio |
| D V | bmv_video | Discworld II BMV video |
| D V D | c93 | Interplay C93 |
| D V D | camstudio | CamStudio |
| D V D | cavs | Chinese AVS video (AVS 1-P2, J iZh un profile) |
| D V D | cdgraphics | CD Graphics video |
| D V D | cdxl | Commodore CDXL video |
| D V D | cinepak | Cinepak |
| DEV D | cljr | Cirrus Logic AccuPak |
| D A D | cook | COOK |
| D V D | cyuv | Creative YUV (CYUV) |
| DEA D | dca | DCA (DTS Coherent Acoustics) |
| D V D | dfa | Chronomaster DFA |
| D V | dirac | BBC Dirac VC-2 |
| DEV D | dnxhd | VC3/DNxHD |
| DEV | dpx | DPX image |
| D A D | 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 D | dxtory | Dxtory |
| DEA D | eac3 | ATSC A/52 E-AC-3 |
| D V D | eacmv | Electronic Arts CMV video |
| D V D | eamad | Electronic Arts Madcow Video |
| D V D | eatgq | Electronic Arts TGQ video |
| D V | eatgv | Electronic Arts TGV video |
| D V D | eatqi | Electronic Arts TQI Video |
| D V D | escape124 | Escape 124 |
| D V D | escape130 | Escape 130 |
| DEV D | ffv1 | FFmpeg video codec #1 |
| DEVSD | ffvhuff | Huffyuv FFmpeg variant |
| DEA D | flac | FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) |
| D V D | flic | Autodesk Animator Flic video |
| DEVSD | flv | Flash Video (FLV) / Sorenson Spark / Sorenson H.263 |
| D V D | fraps | Fraps |
| D V D | frwu | Forward Uncompressed |
| DEA D | g722 | G.722 ADPCM |
| DEA | g723_1 | G.723.1 |
| DEA D | g726 | G.726 ADPCM |
| D A D | g729 | G.729 |
| DEV D | gif | GIF (Graphics Interchange Format ) |
| D A D | gsm | GSM |
| D A D | gsm_ms | GSM Microsoft variant |
| DEV D | h261 | H.261 |
| DEVSDT | h263 | H.263 / H.263-1996 |
| D VSD | h263i | Intel H.263 |
| EV | h263p | H.263+ / H.263-1998 / H.263 version 2 |
| D V D | h264 | H.264 / AVC / MPEG-4 A VC / MPEG- 4 part 10 |
| DVL | hevc | H.265 / HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding) |
| DEVSD | huffyuv | Huffyuv / HuffYUV |
| D V D | idcinvideo | id Quake II CIN video |
| D V D | idf | iCEDraw text |
| D V D | iff_byterun1 | IFF ByteRun1 |
| D V D | iff_ilbm | IFF ILBM |
| D A D | imc | IMC (Intel Music Coder) |
| D V D | indeo2 | Intel Indeo 2 |
| D V | indeo3 | Intel Indeo 3 |
| D V | indeo4 | Intel Indeo Video Interactive 4 |
| D V | indeo5 | Intel Indeo Video Interactive 5 |
| D A D | interplay_ | dpcm DPCM Interplay |
| D V D | interplayv | ideo Interplay MVE video |
| DEV | j2k | JPEG 2000 |
| DEV D | jpegls | JPEG-LS |
| D V D | jv | Bitmap Brothers JV video |
| D V | kgv1 | Kega Game Video |
| D V D | kmvc | Karl Morton’s video codec |
| D V D | lagarith | Lagarith lossless |
| EV | ljpeg | Lossless JPEG |
| D V D | loco | LOCO |
| D A D | mace3 | MACE (Macintosh Audio Compression/Expansion) 3:1 |
| D A D | mace6 | MACE (Macintosh Audio Compression/Expansion) 6:1 |
| D V D | mdec | Sony PlayStation MDEC (Motion DE Coder) |
| D V D | mimic | Mimic |
| DEV D | mjpeg | MJPEG (Motion JPEG) |
| D V D | mjpegb | Apple MJPEG-B |
| D A D | mlp | MLP (Meridian Lossless Packin g) |
| D V D | mmvideo | American Laser Games M M Video |
| D V D | motionpixels | Motion Pixels video |
| D A D | mp1 | MP1 (MPEG audio layer 1) |
| D A D | mp1float | MP1 (MPEG audio layer 1) |
| DEA D | mp2 | MP2 (MPEG audio layer 2) |
| D A D | mp2float | MP2 (MPEG audio layer 2) |
| D A D | mp3 | MP3 (MPEG audio layer 3) |
| D A D | mp3adu | ADU (Application Data Unit) MP3 (MPEG audio layer 3) |
| D A D | mp3adufloat | ADU (Application Data Unit) MP3 (MPEG audio layer 3) |
| D A D | mp3float | MP3 (MPEG audio layer 3) |
| D A D | mp3on4 | MP3onMP4 |
| D A D | mp3on4float | MP3onMP4 |
| D A D | mpc7 | Musepack SV7 |
| D A D | mpc8 | Musepack SV8 |
| DEVSDT | mpeg1video | MPEG-1 video |
| DEVSDT | mpeg2video | MPEG-2 video |
| DEVSDT | mpeg4 | MPEG-4 part 2 |
| D VSDT | mpegvideo | MPEG-1 video |
| DEVSD | msmpeg4 | MPEG-4 part 2 Microsoft variant version 3 |
| D VSD | 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 |
| DEV D | msvideo1 | Microsoft Video-1 |
| D V D | mszh | LCL (LossLess Codec Li brary) MSZ H |
| D V D | mxpeg | Mobotix MxPEG video |
| DEA D | nellymoser | Nellymoser Asao |
| D V D | nuv | NuppelVideo/RTJPEG |
| DEV D | pam | PAM (Portable AnyMap) image |
| DEV D | pbm | PBM (Portable BitMap) image |
| DEA D | pcm_alaw | PCM A-law / G.711 A-la w |
| D A D | pcm_bluray | PCM signed 16|20|24-bi t big-endian for Blu-ray media |
| D A D | pcm_dvd | PCM signed 20|24-bit b ig-endian |
| DEA D | pcm_f32be | PCM 32-bit floating point big-endian |
| DEA D | pcm_f32le | PCM 32-bit floating point little-endian |
| DEA D | pcm_f64be | PCM 64-bit floating point big-endian |
| DEA D | pcm_f64le | PCM 64-bit floating point little-endian |
| D A D | pcm_lxf | PCM signed 20-bit little-endian planar |
| DEA D | pcm_mulaw | PCM mu-law / G.711 mu- law |
| DEA D | pcm_s16be | PCM signed 16-bit big-endian |
| DEA D | pcm_s16le | PCM signed 16-bit litt le-endi an |
| D A D | pcm_s16le_planar | PCM 16-bit little-endian planar |
| DEA D | pcm_s24be | PCM signed 24-bit big-endian |
| DEA D | pcm_s24daud | PCM D-Cinema audio signed 24- bit |
| DEA D | pcm_s24le | PCM signed 24-bit little-endian |
| DEA D | pcm_s32be | PCM signed 32-bit big-endian |
| DEA D | pcm_s32le | PCM signed 32-bit little-endian |
| DEA D | pcm_s8 | PCM signed 8-bit |
| D A D | pcm_s8_planar | PCM signed 8-bit planar |
| DEA D | pcm_u16be | PCM unsigned 16-bit big-endian |
| DEA D | pcm_u16le | PCM unsigned 16-bit little-endian |
| DEA D | pcm_u24be | PCM unsigned 24-bit big-endian |
| DEA D | pcm_u24le | PCM unsigned 24-bit little-endian |
| DEA D | pcm_u32be | PCM unsigned 32-bit big-endian |
| DEA D | pcm_u32le | PCM unsigned 32-bit little-endian |
| DEA D | pcm_u8 | PCM unsigned 8-bit |
| D A D | pcm_zork | PCM Zork |
| DEV D | pcx | PC Paintbrush PCX image |
| DEV D | pgm | PGM (Portable GrayMap) image |
| DEV D | pgmyuv | PGMYUV (Portable GrayM ap YUV) image |
| D S | pgssub | HDMV Presentation Graphic Stream subtitles |
| D V D | pictor | Pictor/PC Paint |
| DEV D | ppm | PPM (Portable PixelMap ) image |
| DEV D | prores | Apple ProRes |
| EV | prores_anatoliy | Apple ProRes |
| EV | prores_kostya | Apple ProRes (iCodec P ro) |
| D V D | prores_lgpl | Apple ProRes (iCodec P ro) |
| D V D | ptx | V.Flash PTX image |
| D A D | qcelp | QCELP / PureVoice |
| D A D | qdm2 | QDesign Music Codec 2 |
| D V D | qdraw | Apple QuickDraw |
| D V D | qpeg | Q-team QPEG |
| DEV D | qtrle | QuickTime Animation (R LE) video |
| DEV D | r10k | AJA Kona 10-bit RGB Codec |
| DEV D | r210 | Uncompressed RGB 10-bit |
| DEV | rawvideo | raw video |
| DEA D | real_144 | RealAudio 1.0 (14.4K) |
| D A D | real_288 | RealAudio 2.0 (28.8K) |
| D V D | rl2 | RL2 video |
| DEA D | 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 |
| D V D | rv30 | RealVideo 3.0 |
| D V D | rv40 | RealVideo 4.0 |
| D A D | s302m | SMPTE 302M |
| DEV | sgi | SGI image |
| D A D | shorten | Shorten |
| D A D | sipr | RealAudio SIPR / ACELP .NET |
| D A D | smackaud | Smacker audio |
| D V D | smackvid | Smacker video |
| D V D | smc | QuickTime Graphics (SM C) |
| DEV D | snow | Snow |
| D A D | sol_dpcm | DPCM Sol |
| DEA | sonic | Sonic |
| EA | sonicls | Sonic lossless |
| D V D | sp5x | Sunplus JPEG (SP5X) |
| DES | srt | SubRip subtitle |
| DEV D | sunrast | Sun Rasterfile image |
| DEV D | svq1 | Sorenson Vector Quanti zer 1 / So renson Video 1 / SVQ1 |
| D VSD | svq3 | Sorenson Vector Quanti zer 3 / So renson Video 3 / SVQ3 |
| DEV D | targa | Truevision Targa image |
| D VSD | theora | Theora |
| D V D | thp | Nintendo Gamecube THP video |
| D V D | tiertexseq | video Tiertex Limited SEQ vi deo |
| DEV D | tiff | TIFF image |
| D V D | tmv | 8088flex TMV |
| D A D | truehd | TrueHD |
| D V D | truemotion 1 | Duck TrueMotion 1.0 |
| D V D | truemotion 2 | Duck TrueMotion 2.0 |
| D A D | truespeech | DSP Group TrueSpeech |
| D A D | tta | True Audio (TTA) |
| D A D | twinvq | VQF TwinVQ |
| D V D | txd | Renderware TXD (TeXture Dictionary) image |
| D V D | ultimotion | IBM UltiMotion |
| D V D | utvideo | Ut Video |
| DEV D | v210 | Uncompressed 4:2:2 10- bit |
| D V D | v210x | Uncompressed 4:2:2 10- bit |
| DEV D | v308 | Uncompressed packed 4: 0.169444444444444 |
| DEV D | v408 | Uncompressed packed QT 0.169490740740741 4 |
| DEV D | v410 | Uncompressed 4:4:4 10- bit |
| D V | vb | Beam Software VB |
| D V D | vble | VBLE Lossless Codec |
| D V D | vc1 | SMPTE VC-1 |
| D V D | vc1image | Windows Media Video 9 Image v 2 |
| D V D | vcr1 | ATI VCR1 |
| D A D | vmdaudio | Sierra VMD audio |
| D V D | vmdvideo | Sierra VMD video |
| D V D | vmnc | VMware Screen Codec / VMware Video |
| DEA D | vorbis | Vorbis |
| D VSD | 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 | vp8 | On2 VP8 |
| D V D | vqavideo | Westwood Studios VQA ( Vector Quantized Animation) video |
| D A D | wavesynth | Wave synthesis pseudo- codec |
| D A D | wavpack | WavPack |
| D A D | wmalossless | Windows Media Audio 9 Lossless |
| D A D | wmapro | Windows Media Audio 9 Professional |
| DEA D | wmav1 | Windows Media Audio 1 |
| DEA D | wmav2 | Windows Media Audio 2 |
| D A D | wmavoice | Windows Media Audio Voice |
| DEVSD | wmv1 | Windows Media Video 7 |
| DEVSD | wmv2 | Windows Media Video 8 |
| D V D | wmv3 | Windows Media Video 9 |
| D V D | wmv3image | Windows Media Video 9 Image |
| D V D | wnv1 | Winnov WNV1 |
| D A D | ws_snd1 | Westwood Audio (SND1) |
| D A D | xan_dpcm | DPCM Xan |
| D V D | xan_wc3 | Wing Commander III / X an |
| D V D | xan_wc4 | Wing Commander IV / Xx an |
| D V D | xbin | eXtended BINary text |
| D V D | xl | Miro VideoXL |
| DES | xsub | DivX subtitles (XSUB) |
| DEV D | xwd | XWD (X Window Dump) image |
| DEV D | y41p | Uncompressed YUV 4:1:1 12-bit |
| D V | yop | Psygnosis YOP Video |
| DEV D | yuv4 | Uncompressed packed 4: 0.0833333333333333 |
*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.
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