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Avalon ffmpeg formats
[cjcolvar@mallorn ~]$ ffmpeg -formats
ffmpeg version 0.8.2, Copyright (c) 2000-2011 the FFmpeg developers
built on Nov 29 2012 11:05:31 with gcc 4.4.6 20120305 (Red Hat 4.4.6-4)
configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --enable-nonfree --disable-ffplay --disable-ffserver --extra-cflags='-I${LOCAL_PREFIX}/include' --extra-ldflags='-L${LOCAL_PREFIX}/lib -Wl,-rpath,${LOCAL_PREFIX}/lib' --enable-libxvid --extra-libs=-lxvidcore --enable-libx264 --extra-libs='-lx264 -lpthread' --enable-libmp3lame --extra-libs=-lmp3lame --enable-libfaac --extra-libs=-lfaac --enable-libvorbis --extra-libs=-lvorbis --enable-libtheora --extra-libs=-ltheora --enable-libvpx --extra-libs=-lvpx --enable-runtime-cpudetect
libavutil 51. 9. 1 / 51. 9. 1
libavcodec 53. 7. 0 / 53. 7. 0
libavformat 53. 4. 0 / 53. 4. 0
libavdevice 53. 1. 1 / 53. 1. 1
libavfilter 2. 23. 0 / 2. 23. 0
libswscale 2. 0. 0 / 2. 0. 0
libpostproc 51. 2. 0 / 51. 2. 0
File formats:
D. = Demuxing supported
.E = Muxing supported
--
E 3g2 3GP2 format
E 3gp 3GP format
D 4xm 4X Technologies format
D IFF IFF format
D ISS Funcom ISS format
D MTV MTV format
DE RoQ raw id RoQ format
E a64 a64 - video for Commodore 64
D aac raw ADTS AAC
DE ac3 raw AC-3
E adts ADTS AAC
D aea MD STUDIO audio
DE aiff Audio IFF
DE alaw PCM A-law format
DE amr 3GPP AMR file format
D anm Deluxe Paint Animation
D apc CRYO APC format
D ape Monkey's Audio
D applehttp Apple HTTP Live Streaming format
DE asf ASF format
E asf_stream ASF format
DE ass Advanced SubStation Alpha subtitle format
DE au SUN AU format
DE avi AVI format
E avm2 Flash 9 (AVM2) format
D avs AVS format
D bethsoftvid Bethesda Softworks VID format
D bfi Brute Force & Ignorance
D bink Bink
D c93 Interplay C93
DE caf Apple Core Audio Format
DE cavsvideo raw Chinese AVS video
D cdg CD Graphics Format
E crc CRC testing format
DE daud D-Cinema audio format
D dfa Chronomaster DFA
DE dirac raw Dirac
DE dnxhd raw DNxHD (SMPTE VC-3)
D dsicin Delphine Software International CIN format
DE dts raw DTS
DE dv DV video format
D dv1394 DV1394 A/V grab
E dvd MPEG-2 PS format (DVD VOB)
D dxa DXA
D ea Electronic Arts Multimedia Format
D ea_cdata Electronic Arts cdata
DE eac3 raw E-AC-3
DE f32be PCM 32 bit floating-point big-endian format
DE f32le PCM 32 bit floating-point little-endian format
DE f64be PCM 64 bit floating-point big-endian format
DE f64le PCM 64 bit floating-point little-endian format
D fbdev Linux framebuffer
DE ffm FFM (FFserver live feed) format
DE ffmetadata FFmpeg metadata in text format
D film_cpk Sega FILM/CPK format
DE filmstrip Adobe Filmstrip
DE flac raw FLAC
D flic FLI/FLC/FLX animation format
DE flv FLV format
E framecrc framecrc testing format
E framemd5 Per-frame MD5 testing format
DE g722 raw G.722
E gif GIF Animation
D gsm raw GSM
DE gxf GXF format
DE h261 raw H.261
DE h263 raw H.263
DE h264 raw H.264 video format
D idcin id Cinematic format
DE image2 image2 sequence
DE image2pipe piped image2 sequence
D ingenient raw Ingenient MJPEG
D ipmovie Interplay MVE format
E ipod iPod H.264 MP4 format
D iv8 A format generated by IndigoVision 8000 video server
DE ivf On2 IVF
D jv Bitmap Brothers JV
D lmlm4 lmlm4 raw format
D lxf VR native stream format (LXF)
DE m4v raw MPEG-4 video format
E matroska Matroska file format
D matroska,webm Matroska/WebM file format
E md5 MD5 testing format
DE microdvd MicroDVD subtitle format
DE mjpeg raw MJPEG video
DE mlp raw MLP
D mm American Laser Games MM format
DE mmf Yamaha SMAF
E mov MOV format
D mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 QuickTime/MPEG-4/Motion JPEG 2000 format
E mp2 MPEG audio layer 2
DE mp3 MPEG audio layer 3
E mp4 MP4 format
D mpc Musepack
D mpc8 Musepack SV8
DE mpeg MPEG-1 System format
E mpeg1video raw MPEG-1 video
E mpeg2video raw MPEG-2 video
DE mpegts MPEG-2 transport stream format
D mpegtsraw MPEG-2 raw transport stream format
D mpegvideo raw MPEG video
E mpjpeg MIME multipart JPEG format
D msnwctcp MSN TCP Webcam stream
DE mulaw PCM mu-law format
D mvi Motion Pixels MVI format
DE mxf Material eXchange Format
E mxf_d10 Material eXchange Format, D-10 Mapping
D mxg MxPEG clip file format
D nc NC camera feed format
D nsv Nullsoft Streaming Video
E null raw null video format
DE nut NUT format
D nuv NuppelVideo format
DE ogg Ogg
D oma Sony OpenMG audio
DE oss Open Sound System playback
D pmp Playstation Portable PMP format
E psp PSP MP4 format
D psxstr Sony Playstation STR format
D pva TechnoTrend PVA file and stream format
D qcp QCP format
D r3d REDCODE R3D format
DE rawvideo raw video format
E rcv VC-1 test bitstream
D rl2 RL2 format
DE rm RealMedia format
D rpl RPL/ARMovie format
DE rso Lego Mindstorms RSO format
DE rtp RTP output format
DE rtsp RTSP output format
DE s16be PCM signed 16 bit big-endian format
DE s16le PCM signed 16 bit little-endian format
DE s24be PCM signed 24 bit big-endian format
DE s24le PCM signed 24 bit little-endian format
DE s32be PCM signed 32 bit big-endian format
DE s32le PCM signed 32 bit little-endian format
DE s8 PCM signed 8 bit format
DE sap SAP output format
E sdl SDL output device
D sdp SDP
D shn raw Shorten
D siff Beam Software SIFF
D smk Smacker video
D sol Sierra SOL format
DE sox SoX native format
DE spdif IEC 61937 (used on S/PDIF - IEC958)
DE srt SubRip subtitle format
E svcd MPEG-2 PS format (VOB)
DE swf Flash format
D thp THP
D tiertexseq Tiertex Limited SEQ format
D tmv 8088flex TMV
DE truehd raw TrueHD
D tta True Audio
D tty Tele-typewriter
D txd Renderware TeXture Dictionary
DE u16be PCM unsigned 16 bit big-endian format
DE u16le PCM unsigned 16 bit little-endian format
DE u24be PCM unsigned 24 bit big-endian format
DE u24le PCM unsigned 24 bit little-endian format
DE u32be PCM unsigned 32 bit big-endian format
DE u32le PCM unsigned 32 bit little-endian format
DE u8 PCM unsigned 8 bit format
D vc1 raw VC-1
D vc1test VC-1 test bitstream format
E vcd MPEG-1 System format (VCD)
D video4linux Video4Linux device grab
D video4linux2 Video4Linux2 device grab
D vmd Sierra VMD format
E vob MPEG-2 PS format (VOB)
DE voc Creative Voice file format
D vqf Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) TwinVQ
D w64 Sony Wave64 format
DE wav WAV format
D wc3movie Wing Commander III movie format
E webm WebM file format
D wsaud Westwood Studios audio format
D wsvqa Westwood Studios VQA format
D wtv Windows Television (WTV)
D wv WavPack
D xa Maxis XA File Format
D xwma Microsoft xWMA
D yop Psygnosis YOP Format
DE yuv4mpegpipe YUV4MPEG pipe format
[cjcolvar@mallorn ~]$ /usr/local/ffmpeg/bin/ffmpeg -formats
ffmpeg version N-48668-g8514d5b Copyright (c) 2000-2013 the FFmpeg developers
built on Jan 28 2013 14:03:25 with gcc 4.4.6 (GCC) 20120305 (Red Hat 4.4.6-4)
configuration: --prefix=/usr/local/ffmpeg-20130109 --enable-gpl --enable-shared --enable-nonfree --enable-postproc --enable-swscale --enable-avfilter --enable-pthreads --enable-libfaac --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libx264 --enable-libxvid --enable-libvpx --enable-libopenjpeg
libavutil 52. 13.100 / 52. 13.100
libavcodec 54. 86.100 / 54. 86.100
libavformat 54. 59.107 / 54. 59.107
libavdevice 54. 3.102 / 54. 3.102
libavfilter 3. 32.100 / 3. 32.100
libswscale 2. 1.103 / 2. 1.103
libswresample 0. 17.102 / 0. 17.102
libpostproc 52. 2.100 / 52. 2.100
File formats:
D. = Demuxing supported
.E = Muxing supported
--
E 3g2 3GP2 (3GPP2 file format)
E 3gp 3GP (3GPP file format)
D 4xm 4X Technologies
E a64 a64 - video for Commodore 64
D aac raw ADTS AAC (Advanced Audio Coding)
DE ac3 raw AC-3
D act ACT Voice file format
D adf Artworx Data Format
E adts ADTS AAC (Advanced Audio Coding)
DE adx CRI ADX
D aea MD STUDIO audio
D afc AFC
DE aiff Audio IFF
DE alaw PCM A-law
DE amr 3GPP AMR
D anm Deluxe Paint Animation
D apc CRYO APC
D ape Monkey's Audio
D aqtitle AQTitle subtitles
DE asf ASF (Advanced / Active Streaming Format)
E asf_stream ASF (Advanced / Active Streaming Format)
DE ass SSA (SubStation Alpha) subtitle
DE ast AST (Audio Stream)
DE au Sun AU
DE avi AVI (Audio Video Interleaved)
E avm2 SWF (ShockWave Flash) (AVM2)
D avr AVR (Audio Visual Research)
D avs AVS
D bethsoftvid Bethesda Softworks VID
D bfi Brute Force & Ignorance
D bin Binary text
D bink Bink
DE bit G.729 BIT file format
D bmv Discworld II BMV
D brstm BRSTM (Binary Revolution Stream)
D c93 Interplay C93
DE caf Apple CAF (Core Audio Format)
DE cavsvideo raw Chinese AVS (Audio Video Standard) video
D cdg CD Graphics
D cdxl Commodore CDXL video
D concat Virtual concatenation script
E crc CRC testing
DE daud D-Cinema audio
D dfa Chronomaster DFA
DE dirac raw Dirac
DE dnxhd raw DNxHD (SMPTE VC-3)
D dsicin Delphine Software International CIN
DE dts raw DTS
D dtshd raw DTS-HD
DE dv DV (Digital Video)
D dv1394 DV1394 A/V grab
E dvd MPEG-2 PS (DVD VOB)
D dxa DXA
D ea Electronic Arts Multimedia
D ea_cdata Electronic Arts cdata
DE eac3 raw E-AC-3
D epaf Ensoniq Paris Audio File
DE f32be PCM 32-bit floating-point big-endian
DE f32le PCM 32-bit floating-point little-endian
E f4v F4V Adobe Flash Video
DE f64be PCM 64-bit floating-point big-endian
DE f64le PCM 64-bit floating-point little-endian
D fbdev Linux framebuffer
DE ffm FFM (FFserver live feed)
DE ffmetadata FFmpeg metadata in text
D film_cpk Sega FILM / CPK
DE filmstrip Adobe Filmstrip
DE flac raw FLAC
D flic FLI/FLC/FLX animation
DE flv FLV (Flash Video)
E framecrc framecrc testing
E framemd5 Per-frame MD5 testing
D frm Megalux Frame
DE g722 raw G.722
DE g723_1 raw G.723.1
D g729 G.729 raw format demuxer
DE gif GIF Animation
D gsm raw GSM
DE gxf GXF (General eXchange Format)
DE h261 raw H.261
DE h263 raw H.263
DE h264 raw H.264 video
E hls Apple HTTP Live Streaming
D hls,applehttp Apple HTTP Live Streaming
DE ico Microsoft Windows ICO
D idcin id Cinematic
D idf iCE Draw File
D iff IFF (Interchange File Format)
DE ilbc iLBC storage
DE image2 image2 sequence
DE image2pipe piped image2 sequence
D ingenient raw Ingenient MJPEG
D ipmovie Interplay MVE
E ipod iPod H.264 MP4 (MPEG-4 Part 14)
DE ircam Berkeley/IRCAM/CARL Sound Format
E ismv ISMV/ISMA (Smooth Streaming)
D iss Funcom ISS
D iv8 IndigoVision 8000 video
DE ivf On2 IVF
DE jacosub JACOsub subtitle format
D jv Bitmap Brothers JV
DE latm LOAS/LATM
D lavfi Libavfilter virtual input device
D lmlm4 raw lmlm4
D loas LOAS AudioSyncStream
D lvf LVF
D lxf VR native stream (LXF)
DE m4v raw MPEG-4 video
E matroska Matroska
D matroska,webm Matroska / WebM
E md5 MD5 testing
D mgsts Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes
DE microdvd MicroDVD subtitle format
DE mjpeg raw MJPEG video
E mkvtimestamp_v2 extract pts as timecode v2 format, as defined by mkvtoolnix
DE mlp raw MLP
D mm American Laser Games MM
DE mmf Yamaha SMAF
E mov QuickTime / MOV
D mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 QuickTime / MOV
E mp2 MP2 (MPEG audio layer 2)
DE mp3 MP3 (MPEG audio layer 3)
E mp4 MP4 (MPEG-4 Part 14)
D mpc Musepack
D mpc8 Musepack SV8
DE mpeg MPEG-1 Systems / MPEG program stream
E mpeg1video raw MPEG-1 video
E mpeg2video raw MPEG-2 video
DE mpegts MPEG-TS (MPEG-2 Transport Stream)
D mpegtsraw raw MPEG-TS (MPEG-2 Transport Stream)
D mpegvideo raw MPEG video
E mpjpeg MIME multipart JPEG
D mpl2 MPL2 subtitles
D mpsub MPlayer subtitles
D msnwctcp MSN TCP Webcam stream
D mtv MTV
DE mulaw PCM mu-law
D mv Silicon Graphics Movie
D mvi Motion Pixels MVI
DE mxf MXF (Material eXchange Format)
E mxf_d10 MXF (Material eXchange Format) D-10 Mapping
D mxg MxPEG clip
D nc NC camera feed
D nistsphere NIST SPeech HEader REsources
D nsv Nullsoft Streaming Video
E null raw null video
DE nut NUT
D nuv NuppelVideo
DE ogg Ogg
DE oma Sony OpenMG audio
DE oss OSS (Open Sound System) playback
D paf Amazing Studio Packed Animation File
D pjs PJS (Phoenix Japanimation Society) subtitles
D pmp Playstation Portable PMP
E psp PSP MP4 (MPEG-4 Part 14)
D psxstr Sony Playstation STR
D pva TechnoTrend PVA
D pvf PVF (Portable Voice Format)
D qcp QCP
D r3d REDCODE R3D
DE rawvideo raw video
E rcv VC-1 test bitstream
D realtext RealText subtitle format
D rl2 RL2
DE rm RealMedia
DE roq raw id RoQ
D rpl RPL / ARMovie
DE rso Lego Mindstorms RSO
DE rtp RTP output
DE rtsp RTSP output
DE s16be PCM signed 16-bit big-endian
DE s16le PCM signed 16-bit little-endian
DE s24be PCM signed 24-bit big-endian
DE s24le PCM signed 24-bit little-endian
DE s32be PCM signed 32-bit big-endian
DE s32le PCM signed 32-bit little-endian
DE s8 PCM signed 8-bit
D sami SAMI subtitle format
DE sap SAP output
D sbg SBaGen binaural beats script
D sdp SDP
E segment segment
D shn raw Shorten
D siff Beam Software SIFF
DE smjpeg Loki SDL MJPEG
D smk Smacker
E smoothstreaming Smooth Streaming Muxer
D smush LucasArts Smush
D sol Sierra SOL
DE sox SoX native
DE spdif IEC 61937 (used on S/PDIF - IEC958)
DE srt SubRip subtitle
E stream_segment,ssegment streaming segment muxer
D subviewer SubViewer subtitle format
D subviewer1 SubViewer v1 subtitle format
E svcd MPEG-2 PS (SVCD)
DE swf SWF (ShockWave Flash)
D tak raw TAK
D tedcaptions TED Talks captions
D thp THP
D tiertexseq Tiertex Limited SEQ
D tmv 8088flex TMV
DE truehd raw TrueHD
D tta TTA (True Audio)
D tty Tele-typewriter
D txd Renderware TeXture Dictionary
DE u16be PCM unsigned 16-bit big-endian
DE u16le PCM unsigned 16-bit little-endian
DE u24be PCM unsigned 24-bit big-endian
DE u24le PCM unsigned 24-bit little-endian
DE u32be PCM unsigned 32-bit big-endian
DE u32le PCM unsigned 32-bit little-endian
DE u8 PCM unsigned 8-bit
D vc1 raw VC-1
D vc1test VC-1 test bitstream
E vcd MPEG-1 Systems / MPEG program stream (VCD)
D video4linux2,v4l2 Video4Linux2 device grab
D vivo Vivo
D vmd Sierra VMD
E vob MPEG-2 PS (VOB)
D vobsub VobSub subtitle format
DE voc Creative Voice
D vplayer VPlayer subtitles
D vqf Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) TwinVQ
DE w64 Sony Wave64
DE wav WAV / WAVE (Waveform Audio)
D wc3movie Wing Commander III movie
E webm WebM
D webvtt WebVTT subtitle
D wsaud Westwood Studios audio
D wsvqa Westwood Studios VQA
DE wtv Windows Television (WTV)
DE wv WavPack
D xa Maxis XA
D xbin eXtended BINary text (XBIN)
D xmv Microsoft XMV
D xwma Microsoft xWMA
D yop Psygnosis YOP
DE yuv4mpegpipe YUV4MPEG pipe
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