Editing FFmpeg (section)

=== Supported formats ===
{{Further|libavcodec}}{{More citations needed section|date=July 2022}}
In addition to [[FFV1]] and Snow formats, which were created and developed from within FFmpeg, the project also supports the following formats:
{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
! Group !! Format type !! Format name
|-
| rowspan = 4 | [[International Organization for Standardization|ISO]]/[[International Electrotechnical Commission|IEC]]/[[ITU-T]]
| Video || [[MPEG-1 Part 2]], [[H.261]] (Px64),<ref name="svn8747" /> [[H.262/MPEG-2 Part 2]], [[H.263]],<ref name="svn8747" /> [[MPEG-4 Part 2]], [[H.264/MPEG-4 AVC]], [[High Efficiency Video Coding|HEVC/H.265]]<ref name=FFmpegHEVCOctober2013Softpedia /> (MPEG-H Part 2), [[Internet Video Coding#History|MPEG-4 VCB]] (a.k.a. VP8), [[Motion JPEG]], IEC [[DV (video format)|DV]] video<!--IEC 61834-2--> and [[CD+G]]<!--IEC 908-->
|-
| Audio || [[MPEG-1 Audio Layer I|MP1]], [[MPEG-1 Audio Layer II|MP2]], [[MP3]], [[Advanced Audio Coding|AAC]], [[High-Efficiency Advanced Audio Coding|HE-AAC]], [[MPEG-4 ALS]], [[G.711]] μ-law, [[G.711]] A-law, [[G.721]] (a.k.a. [[G.726]] 32k), [[G.722]], [[G.722.2]] (a.k.a. AMR-WB), [[G.723]] (a.k.a. [[G.726]] 24k and 40k), [[G.723.1]], [[G.726]], [[G.729]], [[G.729D]], IEC [[DV (video format)|DV]] audio and [[Super Audio CD#DST|Direct Stream Transfer]]
|-
| Subtitle || [[MPEG-4 Part 17|MPEG-4 Timed Text]] (a.k.a. 3GPP Timed Text)
|-
| Image || [[JPEG]], [[Lossless JPEG]], [[JPEG-LS]], [[JPEG 2000]], [[JPEG XL]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=FFmpeg Lands JPEG-XL Support |url=https://www.phoronix.com/news/FFmpeg-JPEG-XL-Lands |access-date=2022-04-26 |website=www.phoronix.com |language=en |archive-date=2022-07-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220724085837/https://www.phoronix.com/news/FFmpeg-JPEG-XL-Lands |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Portable Network Graphics|PNG]], [[Fax|CCITT G3]] and [[Group 4 compression|CCITT G4]]
|-
|rowspan=2 | [[Alliance for Open Media]]
|Video
|[[AV1]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://git.ffmpeg.org/gitweb/ffmpeg.git/commit/43778a501f1bfbceeddc8eaeea2ea2b3506beeda|title=git.ffmpeg.org Git - ffmpeg.git/commit|website=git.ffmpeg.org|language=en-US|access-date=2018-04-23|archive-date=2018-04-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180423232534/https://git.ffmpeg.org/gitweb/ffmpeg.git/commit/43778a501f1bfbceeddc8eaeea2ea2b3506beeda|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|Image
|[[AVIF]]<ref name="phoronix_5_1"/>
|-
| [[Electronic Industries Alliance|EIA]]
| Subtitle || [[EIA-608]]
|-
| [[Consumer Electronics Association|CEA]]
| Subtitle || [[CEA-708]]
|-
| rowspan="3" | [[Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers|SMPTE]]
| Video || SMPTE 314M (a.k.a. [[DV (video format)#DVCAM|DVCAM]] and [[DV (video format)#DVCPRO|DVCPRO]]), SMPTE 370M (a.k.a. [[DV (video format)#DVCPRO HD|DVCPRO HD]]), [[VC-1]] (a.k.a. WMV3), [[VC-2]] (a.k.a. Dirac Pro), [[VC-3]] (a.k.a. AVID [[DNxHD]])
|-
| Audio || [[SMPTE 302M]]
|-
| Image || [[Digital Picture Exchange|DPX]]
|-
| rowspan="2" | [[Advanced Television Systems Committee standards|ATSC]]/[[ETSI]]/[[Digital Video Broadcasting|DVB]]
| Audio ||[[Full Rate]] (GSM 06.10), AC-3 ([[Dolby Digital]]), Enhanced AC-3 ([[Dolby Digital Plus]]) and [[DTS (sound system)#DTS audio codec|DTS Coherent Acoustics]] (a.k.a. DTS or DCA)<!--ETSI TS 102 114-->
|-
| Subtitle || DVB Subtitling (ETSI 300 743)
|-
| rowspan = 2 | [[DVD Forum]]/[[Dolby]]
| Audio || [[Meridian Lossless Packing|MLP]] / [[Dolby TrueHD]]
|-
| Subtitle || [[DVD-Video#Subtitles|DVD-Video subtitles]]
|-
| [[Xperi]]/[[DTS (sound system)|DTS, Inc]]/[[QDesign]]
| Audio || [[DTS (sound system)#DTS audio codec|DTS Coherent Acoustics]] (a.k.a. DTS or DCA), [[DTS (sound system)#DTS-ES|DTS Extended Surround]] (a.k.a. DTS-ES), [[DTS (sound system)#DTS 96.2F24|DTS 96/24]], [[DTS (sound system)#DTS-HD High Resolution Audio|DTS-HD High Resolution Audio]], DTS Express (a.k.a. DTS-HD LBR), [[DTS-HD Master Audio]], [[QDesign]] Music Codec 1 and 2
|-
| [[Blu-ray Disc Association]]
| Subtitle || PGS (Presentation Graphics Stream)
|-
| [[3GPP]] || Audio || [[AMR-NB]], [[AMR-WB]] (a.k.a. G.722.2)
|-
| [[3rd Generation Partnership Project 2|3GPP2]] || Audio || [[Qualcomm code-excited linear prediction|QCELP]]-8 (a.k.a. SmartRate or IS-96C)<!--C.S0009-->, QCELP-13 (a.k.a. PureVoice or IS-733)<!--C.S0020--> and [[Enhanced Variable Rate Codec]] (EVRC. a.k.a. IS-127)<!--C.S0014-->
|-
| rowspan = 3 | [[World Wide Web Consortium]]
| Video || [[GIF#Animated GIF|Animated GIF]]<ref name="phoronix_1_1"/>
|-
| Subtitle || [[WebVTT]]
|-
| Image || [[GIF]], and [[Scalable Vector Graphics|SVG]] (via [[librsvg]])
|-
| rowspan = 2 | [[Internet Engineering Task Force|IETF]]
| Video || [[FFV1]]<!--RFC 9043-->
|-
| Audio || [[Internet Low Bitrate Codec|iLBC]]<!--RFC 3951--> (via libilbc), [[Opus (audio format)|Opus]]<!--RFC 6716--> and [[Comfort noise]]<!--RFC 3389-->
|-
| International Voice Association || Audio || [[Digital Speech Standard|DSS-SP]]
|-
| [[Standardization Administration of China|SAC]] || Video || [[Audio Video Standard|AVS video]], AVS2 video<ref name="phoronix_4_1"/> (via libdavs2), and AVS3 video (via libuavs3d)
|-
| rowspan = 4 | [[Microsoft]]
| Video || Microsoft [[Run-length encoding|RLE]], [[Microsoft Video 1]], [[Cinepak]], Microsoft [[MPEG-4 Part 2|MPEG-4]] v1, v2 and v3, [[Windows Media Video]] (WMV1, WMV2, WMV3/[[VC-1]]), [[Windows Media Video#Windows Media Video Screen|WMV Screen]] and Mimic codec
|-
| Audio || [[Windows Media Audio]] (WMA1, WMA2, WMA Pro and WMA Lossless), [[XMA (audio format)|XMA]] (XMA1 and XMA2),<ref>[https://www.phoronix.com/news/FFmpeg-3.0-Released FFmpeg 3.0 Released, Supports VP9 VA-API Acceleration] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220808081632/https://www.phoronix.com/news/FFmpeg-3.0-Released |date=2022-08-08 }}. Phoronix. February 15, 2016</ref> MSN [[Siren (codec)|Siren]], MS-GSM and MS-ADPCM
|-
| Subtitle || [[SAMI]]
|-
| Image || [[BMP file format|Windows Bitmap]], [[Windows Media Video#Windows Media Video Image|WMV Image]] (WMV9 Image and WMV9 Image v2), [[DirectDraw Surface]], and [[Microsoft Paint|MSP]]<ref>[https://www.phoronix.com/news/FFmpeg-4.4-Released FFmpeg 4.4 Released With AV1 VA-API Decoder, SVT-AV1 Encoding] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220808081633/https://www.phoronix.com/news/FFmpeg-4.4-Released |date=2022-08-08 }}. Phoronix. April 9, 2021</ref>
|-
| [[Interactive Multimedia Association]] || Audio || IMA ADPCM
|-
| rowspan = 2 | [[Intel]] / [[Digital Video Interactive]]
| Video || RTV 2.1 ([[Indeo]] 2), Indeo 3, 4 and 5,<ref name="svn8747" /> and Intel H.263
|-
| Audio || DVI4 (a.k.a. IMA DVI ADPCM), Intel Music Coder, and Indeo Audio Coder
|-
| rowspan = 3 | [[RealNetworks]]
| Video || [[RealVideo]] Fractal Codec (a.k.a. Iterated Systems ClearVideo), 1, 2, 3 and 4
|-
| Audio || [[RealAudio]] v1 – v10, and RealAudio Lossless<ref name="phoronix_0_11"/>
|-
| Subtitle || [[RealText]]
|-
| rowspan = 4 | [[Apple Inc.|Apple]] / Spruce Technologies
| Video || [[Cinepak]] (Apple Compact Video), [[ProRes 422|ProRes]], [[Sorenson 3 Codec]], [[QuickTime Animation]] (Apple Animation), [[QuickTime Graphics]] (Apple Graphics), [[Apple Video]], [[Apple Intermediate Codec]] and [[Pixlet]]<ref name="phoronix_3_3"/>
|-
| Audio || [[Apple Lossless|ALAC]]
|-
| Image || [[QuickDraw]] [[PICT]]
|-
| Subtitle || Spruce subtitle (STL)
|-
| rowspan = 2 | [[Adobe Flash Player]] (SWF)
| Video || Screen video, Screen video 2, [[Sorenson Media#Sorenson Spark|Sorenson Spark]] and [[VP6]]
|-
| Audio || Adobe SWF [[ADPCM]] and [[Nellymoser Asao Codec|Nellymoser Asao]]
|-
| [[Adobe Inc.|Adobe]] / [[Aldus Corporation|Aldus]]
| Image || [[Tag Image File Format|TIFF]], [[Adobe Photoshop#File format|PSD]],<ref name="phoronix_3_3">[https://www.phoronix.com/news/FFmpeg-3.3-Released FFmpeg 3.3 Brings Native Opus Encoder, Support For Spherical Videos] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220808072028/https://www.phoronix.com/news/FFmpeg-3.3-Released |date=2022-08-08 }}. Phoronix. April 17, 2017</ref> and [[Digital Negative|DNG]]
|-
| rowspan = 3 | [[Xiph.Org]]
| Video || [[Theora]]
|-
| Audio || [[Speex]],<ref>[https://www.phoronix.com/news/FFmpeg-5.0-Released FFmpeg 5.0 Released For This Popular, Open-Source Multimedia Library] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220808082930/https://www.phoronix.com/news/FFmpeg-5.0-Released |date=2022-08-08 }}. Phoronix. January 14, 2022</ref> [[Vorbis]], [[Opus (audio codec)|Opus]] and [[FLAC]]
|-
| Subtitle || [[Ogg Writ]]
|-
| [[Sony]]
| Audio || [[Adaptive Transform Acoustic Coding]] (ATRAC1, ATRAC3, ATRAC3Plus,<ref name="phoronix_2_2">[https://www.phoronix.com/news/MTY0MTA FFmpeg 2.2 Release Adds The Libx265 Encoder] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220808082929/https://www.phoronix.com/news/MTY0MTA |date=2022-08-08 }}. Phoronix. March 23, 2014</ref> and ATRAC9<ref name="phoronix_4_1">[https://www.phoronix.com/news/FFmpeg-4.1-Released FFmpeg 4.1 Brings AV1 Parser & Support For AV1 In MP4] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220808081633/https://www.phoronix.com/news/FFmpeg-4.1-Released |date=2022-08-08 }}. Phoronix. November 6, 2018</ref>)<ref name="svn8747">{{cite web|url=http://svn.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg/trunk/Changelog?revision=8747&view=marku |title=Changelog |publisher=FFmpeg |work=FFmpeg trunk SVN |date=17 April 2007 |access-date=26 April 2007 }}{{dead link|date=December 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> and PSX ADPCM
|-
| [[Nippon Telegraph and Telephone|NTT]] || Audio || [[TwinVQ]]
|-
| rowspan = 3 | [[Google]] / [[On2]] / [[Global IP Solutions|GIPS]] || Video || Duck TrueMotion 1, Duck TrueMotion 2, Duck TrueMotion 2.0 Real Time, [[VP3]], [[VP4]],<ref>[https://www.phoronix.com/news/FFmpeg-4.2-Released FFmpeg 4.2 Released With AV1 Decoding Support, GIF Parser] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220808082929/https://www.phoronix.com/news/FFmpeg-4.2-Released |date=2022-08-08 }}. Phoronix. August 6, 2019</ref> [[VP5]],<ref name="svn8747" /> [[VP6]],<ref name="svn8747" /> [[VP7]], [[VP8]],<ref>[https://www.phoronix.com/news/ODM0MA FFmpeg 0.6 Released With H.264, VP8 Love] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220808074540/https://www.phoronix.com/news/ODM0MA |date=2022-08-08 }}. Phoronix. June 16, 2010</ref> [[VP9]]<ref name="LaunchpadVP9Decoder" /> and animated WebP
|-
| Audio || [[On2 Technologies#DK ADPCM Audio 3/4|DK ADPCM Audio 3/4]], [[On2 AVC]] and [[Internet Low Bitrate Codec|iLBC]] (via libilbc)
|-
| Image || [[WebP]]<ref name="phoronix_2_5"/>
|-
| rowspan = 2 | [[Epic Games]] / RAD Game Tools || Video || [[Smacker video]] and [[Bink video]]
|-
| Audio || Bink audio
|-
| [[CRI Middleware]] || Audio || [[ADX (file format)|ADX ADPCM]], and HCA
|-
| rowspan = 2 | [[Nintendo]] / [[Nintendo European Research & Development|NERD]] || Video || [[Nintendo European Research & Development#Mobiclip video codecs|Mobiclip video]]
|-
| Audio || GCADPCM (a.k.a. ADPCM THP), FastAudio, and ADPCM IMA MOFLEX
|-
| [[Synaptics]] / [[DSP Group]] || Audio || [[Truespeech]]
|-
| rowspan = 2 | [[Electronic Arts]] / [[Criterion Games]] / [[EA Black Box|Black Box Games]] / [[Westwood Studios]] || Video || [[RenderWare]] TXD,<ref name="ffdev20070507">{{cite web|url=http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2007-May/028760.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20070811203618/http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2007-May/028760.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=11 August 2007 |title=FFmpeg development mailing list |publisher=FFmpeg |work=FFmpeg development |date=7 May 2007 |access-date=24 December 2010 }}</ref> Madcow, CMV, TGV, TGQ, TQI, Midivid VQ (MVDV), MidiVid 3.0 (MV30), Midivid Archival (MVHA), and Vector Quantized Animation (VQA)
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| Audio || Electronic Arts ADPCM variants
|-
| [[Netpbm]] || Image || [[Netpbm format|PBM, PGM, PPM, PNM, PAM, PFM and PHM]]
|-
| MIT/X Consortium/[[The Open Group]] || Image || [[X BitMap|XBM]],<ref name="phoronix_0_11">[https://www.phoronix.com/news/MTEwNzM FFmpeg 0.11 Has Blu-Ray Protocol, New Encoders] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220808081633/https://www.phoronix.com/news/MTEwNzM |date=2022-08-08 }}. Phoronix. May 26, 2012</ref> [[X PixMap|XPM]] and [[xwd]]
|-
| rowspan = 2 | [[Hewlett Packard Enterprise|HPE]] / [[Silicon Graphics International|SGI]] / [[Silicon Graphics]] || Video || Silicon Graphics RLE 8-bit video,<ref name="phoronix_1_1"/> Silicon Graphics MVC1/2<ref name="phoronix_1_1"/>
|-
| Image || [[Silicon Graphics Image]]
|-
| [[Oracle Corporation|Oracle]]/[[Sun Microsystems]] || Image || [[Sun Raster]]
|-
| [[IBM]] || Video || [[IBM UltiMotion]]
|-
| rowspan = 2 | [[Avid Technology]] / [[Truevision]] || Video || Avid 1:1x, Avid Meridien,<ref name="phoronix_0_11"/> Avid [[DNxHD]], Avid DNx444,<ref name="phoronix_2_2"/> and [[DNxHR codec|DNxHR]]
|-
| Image || [[Truevision TGA|Targa]]<ref name="phoronix_1_1"/>
|-
| rowspan = 2 | [[Autodesk]] / [[Alias Systems Corporation|Alias]] || Video || [[Autodesk Animator|Autodesk Animator Studio Codec]] and [[FLIC (file format)|FLIC]]
|-
| Image || Alias PIX
|-
| [[Activision Blizzard]] / [[Activision]] / [[Infocom]] || Audio || ADPCM [[Zork]]
|-
| rowspan = 2 | [[Konami]] / [[Hudson Soft]] || Video || HVQM4 Video
|-
| Audio || Konami MTAF, and ADPCM IMA HVQM4
|-
| [[Grass Valley (company)|Grass Valley]] / [[Canopus Corporation|Canopus]] || Video || HQ, HQA, HQX and Lossless
|-
| rowspan=2 | [[Vizrt]] / [[NewTek]] || Video || SpeedHQ
|-
| Image || Vizrt Binary Image<ref name="phoronix_5_1">[https://www.phoronix.com/news/FFmpeg-5.1-Released FFmpeg 5.1 Released With Many Improvements To This Important Multimedia Project] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220807151020/https://www.phoronix.com/news/FFmpeg-5.1-Released |date=2022-08-07 }}. Phoronix. July 22, 2022</ref>
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| [[Academy Software Foundation]] / [[Industrial Light & Magic|ILM]] || Image || [[OpenEXR]]<ref name="phoronix_0_11"/>
|-
| [[Mozilla Corporation]] || Video || [[APNG]]<ref name="phoronix_2_5">[https://www.phoronix.com/news/MTg1NDQ FFmpeg 2.5 Brings Animated PNG, WebP Decoding Support] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220808071333/https://www.phoronix.com/news/MTg1NDQ |date=2022-08-08 }}. Phoronix. December 4, 2014</ref>
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| [[Matrox]] || Video || Matrox Uncompressed SD (M101) / HD (M102)
|-
| [[Advanced Micro Devices|AMD]]/[[ATI Technologies|ATI]] || Video || ATI VCR1/VCR2
|-
| [[Asus]] || Video || ASUS V1/V2 codec
|-
| [[Commodore International|Commodore]] || Video || [[CDXL]] codec
|-
| [[Kodak]] || Image || [[Photo CD]]
|-
| [[Blackmagic Design]] / [[Cintel]] || Image || Cintel RAW
|-
| [[Houghton Mifflin Harcourt]] / [[The Learning Company]] / ZSoft Corporation || Image || [[PCX]]
|-
| [[Australian National University]] || Image || [[X-Face]]<ref name="phoronix_1_1">[https://www.phoronix.com/news/MTI2OTA FFmpeg 1.1 Brings New Support, Encoders/Decoders] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220808081634/https://www.phoronix.com/news/MTI2OTA |date=2022-08-08 }}. Phoronix. January 7, 2013</ref>
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| [[Bluetooth Special Interest Group]] || Audio || [[SBC (codec)|SBC]], and mSBC
|-
| [[Qualcomm]] / [[CSR (company)|CSR]] || Audio || [[Qualcomm code-excited linear prediction|QCELP]], [[aptX]], and [[AptX#aptX HD|aptX HD]]
|-
| [[Open Mobile Alliance]] / WAP Forum || Image || [[Wireless Application Protocol Bitmap Format|Wireless Bitmap]]
|}