Supported File Formats, Encoders and Decoders

Introduction

This document discusses all supported file formats, encoders, and decoders in Aximmetry.

For convenience, we recommend that you use Ctrl+F to search through the document due to its length.

Video Recording

File Extensions

• avi
• mov
• mp4
• wmv
• ximgseq - Aximmetry image sequence, see below for image format options

Video Encoders

• Raw RGB
• Raw YUV 4:2:2
• Raw YUV 4:2:0
• MPEG-2
• WMV
• H.264 (using NVENC)
• H.265 (using NVENC)
• H.265 10-bit  (using NVENC)
• DNxHD
• DNxHR
• DNxHR 10-bit
• MJPEG
• QT RLE RGBA
• CineForm

Audio Encoders

• Raw PCM
• MP2
• AAC
• Vorbis
• WMA
• FLAC
• NDI audio
• SRT audio
• SMPTE 2110 audio
• RTMP audio
• audio for all supported streaming forms (YouTube, Facebook, Twitch, Restream.io)

Image Sequence Formats

• jpg
• png
• png 16-bit
• tiff
• tiff  LZW
• tiff 16-bit
• tiff  grayscale
• tiff  grayscale LZW
• tga
• hdr
• exr 16-bit floating point
• exr 32-bit floating point
• exr grayscale 16-bit floating point
• exr grayscale 32-bit floating point
• dds
  • R8G8B8A8
  • B8G8R8X8
  • R8G8
  • R8
  • BC1 / DXT1 - no alpha
  • BC1 / DXT1 - 1 bit alpha
  • BC2 / DXT3
  • BC3 / DXT5
  • BC4 / 3Dc+
  • BC5 / 3Dc
  • BC6H
  • BC7 / BPTC
  • R16G16B16A16
  • R16G16
  • R16
  • R16G16B16A16_F
  • R16G16_F
  • R16_F
  • R32G32B32A32_F
  • R32G32_F
  • R32_F
    

Video Playback

File Extensions

• 3gp
• avi
• flv
• m1v
• m2ts
• m2v
• m4v
• mkv
• mov
• mp4
• mpeg
• mpg
• mts
• mxf
• ogv
• qt
• r3d
• ts
• vob
• webm
• wmv
• zrec
• ximgseq - Aximmetry image sequence, see below for image format options

Video Decoders

• 4X Movie
• 8088flex TMV
• AJA Kona 10-bit RGB Codec
• Alliance for Open Media AV1
• Amazing Studio Packed Animation File Video
• American Laser Games MM Video
• Amuse Graphics Movie
• AMV Video
• Apple Intermediate Codec
• Apple MJPEG-B
• Apple ProRes (iCodec Pro)
• Apple QuickDraw
• Argonaut Games Video
• ASCII/ANSI art
• ASUS V1
• ASUS V2
• ATI VCR1
• Auravision AURA
• Auravision Aura 2
• Autodesk Animator Flic video
• Autodesk RLE
• Avid 1:1 10-bit RGB Packer
• Avid AVI Codec
• Avid Meridien Uncompressed
• AVPacket to AVFrame passthrough
• AVS (Audio Video Standard) video
• BBC Dirac VC-2
• Beam Software VB
• Bethesda VID video
• Bink video
• BitJazz SheerVideo
• Bitmap Brothers JV video
• Bitpacked
• BMP (Windows and OS/2 bitmap)
• Brooktree ProSumer Video
• Brute Force & Ignorance
• CamStudio
• Canopus HQ/HQA
• Canopus HQX
• Canopus Lossless Codec
• CD Graphics video
• CDToons video
• Chinese AVS (Audio Video Standard) (AVS1-P2, JiZhun profile)
• Chronomaster DFA
• Cinepak
• Cintel RAW
• Cirrus Logic AccuPak
• Commodore CDXL video
• CPiA video format
• Creative YUV (CYUV)
• Delphine Software International CIN video
• Deluxe Paint Animation
• Digital Pictures SGA Video
• Discworld II BMV video
• Duck TrueMotion 1.0
• Duck TrueMotion 2.0
• Duck TrueMotion 2.0 Real Time
• DV (Digital Video)
• Dxtory
• Electronic Arts CMV video
• Electronic Arts Madcow Video
• Electronic Arts TGQ video
• Electronic Arts TGV video
• Electronic Arts TQI Video
• Escape 124
• Escape 130
• Feeble Files/ScummVM DXA
• FFmpeg video codec #1
• Flash Screen Video v1
• Flash Screen Video v2
• FLV / Sorenson Spark / Sorenson H.263 (Flash Video)
• FM Screen Capture Codec
• Forward Uncompressed
• Fraps
• GIF (Graphics Interchange Format)
• Go2Meeting
• Google VP9
• GoPro CineForm HD
• Gremlin Digital Video
• Gryphon's Anim Compressor
• H.261
• H.263 / H.263-1996, H.263+ / H.263-1998 / H.263 version 2
• H.263 / H.263-1996, H.263+ / H.263-1998 / H.263 version 2
• H.264 / AVC / MPEG-4 AVC / MPEG-4 part 10
• HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding)
• HNM 4 video
• Huffyuv / HuffYUV
• Huffyuv FFmpeg variant
• HuffYUV MT
• IBM UltiMotion
• id Quake II CIN video
• id RoQ video
• IFF ACBM/ANIM/DEEP/ILBM/PBM/RGB8/RGBN
• Infinity IMM4
• Infinity IMM5
• innoHeim/Rsupport Screen Capture Codec
• Intel H.263
• Intel Indeo 2
• Intel Indeo 3
• Intel Indeo Video Interactive 4
• Intel Indeo Video Interactive 5
• Interplay C93
• Interplay MVE video
• IPU Video
• Iterated Systems ClearVideo
• JPEG 2000
• JPEG-LS
• Karl Morton's video codec
• Kega Game Video
• Lagarith lossless
• LCL (LossLess Codec Library) MSZH
• LCL (LossLess Codec Library) ZLIB
• LEAD Screen Capture
• LOCO
• LucasArts SANM/Smush video
• MagicYUV video
• Mandsoft Screen Capture Codec
• MatchWare Screen Capture Codec
• Matrox Uncompressed SD
• Microsoft Paint (MSP) version 2
• Microsoft RLE
• Microsoft Video 1
• MidiVid 3.0
• MidiVid Archive Codec
• MidiVid VQ
• Mimic
• Mirillis FIC
• Miro VideoXL
• MJPEG (Motion JPEG)
• MobiClip Video
• Mobotix MxPEG video
• Motion Pixels video
• MPEG-1 video
• MPEG-1 video
• MPEG-2 video
• MPEG-4 part 2
• MPEG-4 part 2 Microsoft variant version 1
• MPEG-4 part 2 Microsoft variant version 2
• MPEG-4 part 2 Microsoft variant version 3
• MS ATC Screen
• MS Expression Encoder Screen
• MS Screen 1
• MS Windows Media Video V9 Screen
• NewTek SpeedHQ
• Nintendo Gamecube THP video
• NotchLC
• NuppelVideo/RTJPEG
• Nvidia CUVID AV1 decoder
• Nvidia CUVID H264 decoder
• Nvidia CUVID HEVC decoder
• Nvidia CUVID MJPEG decoder
• Nvidia CUVID MPEG1VIDEO decoder
• Nvidia CUVID MPEG2VIDEO decoder
• Nvidia CUVID MPEG4 decoder
• Nvidia CUVID VC1 decoder
• Nvidia CUVID VP8 decoder
• Nvidia CUVID VP9 decoder
• On2 VP3
• On2 VP4
• On2 VP5
• On2 VP6
• On2 VP6 (Flash version)
• On2 VP6 (Flash version, with alpha channel)
• On2 VP7
• On2 VP8
• Photoshop PSD file
• Pinnacle TARGA CineWave YUV16
• Psygnosis YOP Video
• Q-team QPEG
• QuickTime 8BPS video
• QuickTime Animation (RLE) video
• QuickTime Graphics (SMC)
• QuickTime video (RPZA)
• raw video
• RealVideo 1.0
• RealVideo 2.0
• RealVideo 3.0
• RealVideo 4.0
• RemotelyAnywhere Screen Capture
• Resolume DXV
• RL2 video
• Screen Recorder Gold Codec
• Screenpresso
• ScreenPressor
• Sierra VMD video
• Silicon Graphics Motion Video Compressor 1
• Silicon Graphics Motion Video Compressor 2
• Silicon Graphics RLE 8-bit video
• Simbiosis Interactive IMX Video
• Smacker video
• SMPTE VC-1
• SMV JPEG
• Snow
• Sony PlayStation MDEC (Motion DECoder)
• Sorenson Vector Quantizer 1 / Sorenson Video 1 / SVQ1
• Sorenson Vector Quantizer 3 / Sorenson Video 3 / SVQ3
• Sunplus JPEG (SP5X)
• TDSC
• TechSmith Screen Capture Codec
• TechSmith Screen Codec 2
• Theora
• Tiertex Limited SEQ video
• Uncompressed 4:2:2 10-bit
• Uncompressed 4:2:2 10-bit
• Uncompressed 4:2:2 10-bit
• Uncompressed 4:4:4 10-bit
• Uncompressed packed 4:2:0
• Uncompressed packed 4:4:4
• Uncompressed packed MS 4:4:4:4
• Uncompressed packed QT 4:4:4:4
• Uncompressed RGB 10-bit
• Uncompressed YUV 4:1:1 12-bit
• Ut Video
• VBLE Lossless Codec
• VC3/DNxHD
• Vidvox Hap
• VMware Screen Codec / VMware Video
• Westwood Studios VQA (Vector Quantized Animation) video
• WinCAM Motion Video
• Windows Media Video 7
• Windows Media Video 8
• Windows Media Video 9
• Wing Commander III / Xan
• Wing Commander IV / Xxan
• Winnov WNV1
• YUY2 Lossless Codec
• ZeroCodec Lossless Video
• Zip Motion Blocks Video

Audio Decoders

• 8SVX exponential
• 8SVX fibonacci
• AAC (Advanced Audio Coding)
• AAC LATM (Advanced Audio Coding LATM syntax)
• ACM
• ADPCM 4X Movie
• ADPCM AmuseGraphics Movie
• ADPCM Argonaut Games
• ADPCM CDROM XA
• ADPCM Creative Technology
• ADPCM Electronic Arts
• ADPCM Electronic Arts Maxis CDROM XA
• ADPCM Electronic Arts R1
• ADPCM Electronic Arts R2
• ADPCM Electronic Arts R3
• ADPCM Electronic Arts XAS G.722
• ADPCM G.726 ADPCM G.726
• ADPCM IMA AMV
• ADPCM IMA Capcom's MT Framework
• ADPCM IMA CRYO APC
• ADPCM IMA Cunning Developments
• ADPCM IMA Dialogic OKI
• ADPCM IMA Duck DK3
• ADPCM IMA Duck DK4
• ADPCM IMA Electronic Arts EACS
• ADPCM IMA Electronic Arts SEAD
• ADPCM IMA Eurocom DAT4
• ADPCM IMA Funcom ISS
• ADPCM IMA High Voltage Software ALP
• ADPCM IMA Loki SDL MJPEG
• ADPCM IMA MobiClip MOFLEX
• ADPCM IMA QuickTime
• ADPCM IMA Radical
• ADPCM IMA Simon & Schuster Interactive
• ADPCM IMA Ubisoft APM
• ADPCM IMA WAV
• ADPCM IMA Westwood
• ADPCM little-endian
• ADPCM Microsoft
• ADPCM MTAF
• ADPCM Nintendo Gamecube AFC
• ADPCM Nintendo Gamecube DTK
• ADPCM Nintendo THP
• ADPCM Nintendo THP (little-endian)
• ADPCM Playstation
• ADPCM Shockwave Flash
• ADPCM Sound Blaster Pro 2.6-bit
• ADPCM Sound Blaster Pro 2-bit
• ADPCM Sound Blaster Pro 4-bit
• ADPCM Yamaha
• ADPCM Yamaha AICA
• ADPCM Zork  
• ADU (Application Data Unit)
• ADU (Application Data Unit)
• ALAC (Apple Lossless Audio Codec)
• Amazing Studio Packed Animation File Audio
• AMR-NB (Adaptive Multi-Rate NarrowBand)
• AMR-WB (Adaptive Multi-Rate WideBand)
• aptX (Audio Processing Technology for Bluetooth)
• aptX HD (Audio Processing Technology for Bluetooth)
• ATRAC1 (Adaptive TRansform Acoustic Coding)
• ATRAC3 (Adaptive TRansform Acoustic Coding 3)
• ATRAC3 AL (Adaptive TRansform Acoustic Coding 3 Advanced Lossless)
• ATRAC3+ (Adaptive TRansform Acoustic Coding 3+)
• ATRAC3+ AL (Adaptive TRansform Acoustic Coding 3+ Advanced Lossless)
• ATRAC9 (Adaptive TRansform Acoustic Coding 9)
• ATSC A/52A (AC-3)
• ATSC A/52A (AC-3)
• ATSC A/52B (AC-3, E-AC-3)
• Bink Audio (DCT)
• Bink Audio (RDFT)
• CRI
• DCA (DTS Coherent Acoustics)
• Delphine Software International CIN audio
• Digital Speech Standard - Standard Play mode (DSS SP)
• Discworld II BMV audio Cook / Cooker / Gecko (RealAudio G2)
• Dolby E
• DPCM Gremlin
• DPCM id RoQ
• DPCM Interplay
• DPCM Sol DPCM Xan
• DPCM Squareroot-Delta-Exact
• DPCM Xilam DERF
• DSD (Direct Stream Digital), least significant bit first
• DSD (Direct Stream Digital), least significant bit first, planar
• DSD (Direct Stream Digital), most significant bit first
• DSD (Direct Stream Digital), most significant bit first, planar
• DSP Group TrueSpeech
• DST (Digital Stream Transfer)
• EVRC (Enhanced Variable Rate Codec)
• FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec)
• G.723.1
• G.729
• GSM
• GSM Microsoft variant
• HCA
• HCOM Audio
• IAC (Indeo Audio Coder)
• iLBC (Internet Low Bitrate Codec)
• IMC (Intel Music Coder)
• Interplay
• Lossless Windows Media Audio 9 Professional
• LucasArts VIMA audio
• MACE (Macintosh Audio Compression/Expansion) 3:1
• MACE (Macintosh Audio Compression/Expansion) 6:1
• MobiClip FastAudio Wave synthesis pseudo-codec
• Monkey's Audio
  
• MP1 (MPEG audio layer 1)
  
• MP2 (MPEG audio layer 2)
• MP3 (MPEG audio layer 3)
  
• MP3onMP4
• MPEG-4 Audio Lossless Coding (ALS)
• Musepack SV7
• Musepack SV8
• Nellymoser Asao
• On2 Audio for Video Codec
• Opus
• PCM 16.8 floating point little-endian
• PCM 24.0 floating point little-endian
• PCM 32-bit floating point big-endian
• PCM 32-bit floating point little-endian
• PCM 64-bit floating point big-endian
• PCM 64-bit floating point little-endian
• PCM A-law / G.711 A-law
• PCM Archimedes VIDC
• PCM D-Cinema audio signed 24-bit
• PCM mu-law / G.711 mu-law
• PCM SGA PCM unsigned 8-bit
• PCM signed 16|20|24-bit big-endian for Blu-ray media
• PCM signed 16|20|24-bit big-endian for DVD media
• PCM signed 16-bit big-endian
• PCM signed 16-bit big-endian planar
• PCM signed 16-bit little-endian
• PCM signed 16-bit little-endian planar
• PCM signed 20-bit little-endian planar
• PCM signed 24-bit big-endian
• PCM signed 24-bit little-endian
• PCM signed 24-bit little-endian planar
• PCM signed 32-bit big-endian
• PCM signed 32-bit little-endian
• PCM signed 32-bit little-endian planar
• PCM signed 64-bit big-endian
• PCM signed 64-bit little-endian
• PCM signed 8-bit
• PCM signed 8-bit planar
• PCM unsigned 16-bit big-endian
• PCM unsigned 16-bit little-endian
• PCM unsigned 24-bit big-endian
• PCM unsigned 24-bit little-endian
• PCM unsigned 32-bit big-endian
• PCM unsigned 32-bit little-endian
• QCELP / PureVoice
• QDesign Music Codec 1
• QDesign Music Codec 2
• RealAudio 1.0 (14.4K)
• RealAudio 2.0 (28.8K)
• RealAudio Lossless
• RealAudio SIPR / ACELP.NET
• SBC (low-complexity subband codec)
• SEGA CRI ADX ADPCM
• Shorten
• Sierra VMD audio
• Sipro ACELP.KELVIN
• Siren
• Smacker audio
• SMPTE 302M
• Sonic
• TAK (Tom's lossless Audio Kompressor)
• TrueHD
• TTA (True Audio)
• Ulead DV Audio
• Vorbis
• Voxware MetaSound MLP (Meridian Lossless Packing)
• QF TwinVQ
• WavPack
• Westwood Audio (SND1)
• Windows Media Audio
• Windows Media Audio 1
• Windows Media Audio 2
• Windows Media Audio Voice
• Xbox Media Audio 1
• Xbox Media Audio 2

Audio Playback

• flac
• mp2
• mp3
• mpa
• ogg
• wav
• wma

Image

• bmp
• cube
• dds
• dpx
• exr
• gif
• hdp
• hdr
• jpeg
• jpg
• jxr
• png
• psd
• tga
• tif
• tiff
• wdp

3D Model

• dae
• fbx
• obj

Data

• xml
• json
• txt

Scripting

• lua

Unreal Engine

• uproject

Aximmetry Specific

• xcomp - Compound
• xshad - Shader
• xcbrd - Control Board
• ximgseq - Image Sequence
• ximglay - Image Layers
• xdata - various type of data streams