Supported Audio and Video Codecs and Formats

This page lists the audio and video codecs, and the file formats, supported by Media Server. To ingest files that use these codecs and formats, use a Video ingest task (see Ingest Video from a File).

Other codecs and file formats might work, but they are not supported.

Video Codecs

  • MPEG1
  • MPEG2
  • MPEG4 part 2
  • MPEG4 part 10 (Advanced Video Coding) (h264)
  • MPEGH part 2 (High Efficiency Video Coding) (h265)
  • Windows media 7
  • Windows media 8

Audio Codecs

  • MPEG audio layer 1
  • MPEG audio layer 2
  • MPEG audio layer 3
  • MPEG 4 audio (Advanced Audio Coding) (AAC)
  • PCM (wav)
  • Windows media audio 1
  • Windows media audio 2
  • AC3 (ATSC A/52)

File Formats

  • MPEG packet stream (for example .mpg)
  • MPEG2 transport stream (for example .ts)
  • MPEG4 (for example .mp4)
  • WAVE (Waveform Audio) (.wav)
  • asf (Windows media) (.asf, .wmv)
  • raw aac (.aac)
  • raw ac3 (.ac3)