Supported Codecs


At the moment the following video codecs are supported:

AVI

  • Cinepak Codec by Radius, Cinepak by Supermac
  • Intel Indeo(R) Video R3.2
  • Microsoft Video 1
  • Microsoft RLE
  • XviD
  • DivX 3 Lower Motion, DivX 4, DivX 5
  • TechSmith Screen Capture Codec (TSCC)

MPEG

  • MPEG-1 (VCD)
  • MPEG-2 (SVCD.DVD)
  • MPEG-4 (XviD, MP4, 3GPP)

Quicktime

  • Sorenson Video 3 Pro with the audio codec MP3, IMA 4:1 (without QDesign Standard and Qualcomm PureVoice) or wihtout audio
  • Exported from Quicktime Pro
  • Not supported: Exported from Adobe Premiere
  • Not supported: QDM2 Audio Codec

Windows Media Video

  • WMV 7, WMV 8
  • MPEG-4 V3
  • ISO MPEG-4 V1
  • Not supported: WMV 9

 

Technology

The InstantVideoStreamer is based on the open source software FFMPEG. FFMPEG is transcoding engine which translates one codec to another.

Despite lots of testing we can not guarantee that all video codecs are support because sometimes they are different in their implementation.

Bugs

When you have a video which is on our list and encoding fails please send an email to us.

InstantVideoStreamer suppots unlisted codecs?

That is possible. Thank the people from ffmpeg and send us an email so we can add the codec to our list.

Known problems

The resulting video bitrate can be higher than the one currently supported by FFMPEG. FFMPEG uses VBR and the "failure" depends on the source video. We are working on a solution and will hopefully fix it in a future version.