Source Video Formats

Below is the list of video formats encoding.com can decode from.
Note: If a format presents it the list it doesn't mean we support all codecs for this format.

"Trusted" formats

The following input formats are well tested and safe to use.

asf - asf format
avi - avi format
flv - flv format
m4v - raw MPEG4 video format
mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 - QuickTime/MPEG4/Motion JPEG 2000 format
wmv - Windows Media Video format

"Untrusted" formats

The following input formats are not tested. Use them at own risk.

4xm - 4X Technologies format
MTV - MTV format
RoQ - Id RoQ format
aac - ADTS AAC
ac3 - raw ac3
aiff - Audio IFF
alaw - pcm A law format
amr - 3gpp amr file format
apc - CRYO APC format
ape - Monkey's Audio
au - SUN AU Format
avs - avs format
bethsoftvid - Bethesda Softworks 'Daggerfall' VID format
bktr - video grab
c93 - Interplay C93
daud - D-Cinema audio format
dsicin - Delphine Software International CIN format
dts - raw dts
dv - DV video format
dxa - dxa
ea - Electronic Arts Multimedia Format
ffm - ffm format
film_cpk - Sega FILM/CPK format
flac - raw flac
flic - FLI/FLC/FLX animation format
gif - GIF Animation
gxf - GXF format
h261 - raw h261
h263 - raw h263
h264 - raw H264 video format
idcin - Id CIN format
image2 - image2 sequence
image2pipe - piped image2 sequence
ingenient - Ingenient MJPEG
ipmovie - Interplay MVE format
matroska - Matroska File Format
mjpeg - MJPEG video
mm - American Laser Games MM format
mmf - mmf format
mp3 - MPEG audio layer 3
mpc - musepack
mpeg - MPEG1 System format
mpegts - MPEG2 transport stream format
mpegtsraw - MPEG2 raw transport stream format
mpegvideo - MPEG video
mulaw - pcm mu law format
mxf - MXF format
nsv - NullSoft Video format
nut - nut format
nuv - NuppelVideo format
ogg - Ogg format
oss - audio grab and output
psxstr - Sony Playstation STR format
rawvideo - raw video format
redir - Redirector format
rm - rm format
rtsp - RTSP input format
s16be - pcm signed 16 bit big endian format
s16le - pcm signed 16 bit little endian format
s8 - pcm signed 8 bit format
sdp - SDP
shn - raw shorten
smk - Smacker Video
sol - Sierra SOL Format
swf - Flash format
thp - THP
tiertexseq - Tiertex Limited SEQ format
tta - true-audio
txd - txd format
u16be - pcm unsigned 16 bit big endian format
u16le - pcm unsigned 16 bit little endian format
u8 - pcm unsigned 8 bit format
vc1 - raw vc1
vmd - Sierra VMD format
voc - Creative Voice File format
wav - wav format
wc3movie - Wing Commander III movie format
wsaud - Westwood Studios audio format
wsvqa - Westwood Studios VQA format
wv - WavPack
yuv4mpegpipe - YUV4MPEG pipe format