ApsaraVideo Media Processing converts audio and video streams into different definitions, encoding formats, or container formats. This conversion enables playback on various devices and with different network bandwidths. This topic describes the supported input and output formats for audio and video.
Input formats
File type | Container format | Encoding format |
Video | 3GP, AVI, FLV, MP4, M3U8, MPG, ASF, WMV, MKV, MOV, TS, WebM, MXF, VOB | Apple ProRes, AVS+, AVS, AVS2, H.263, H.263+, H.264/AVC, H.265/HEVC, MJPEG, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, Quicktime, RealVideo, VP8, VP9, Windows Media Video |
Audio | AAC, FLAC, M4A, MP3, MP4, OGG | AAC, AC3, ADPCM, AMR, DSD, EAC3, MP1, MP2, MP3, PCM, RealAudio, FLAC, OPUS, Vorbis, Windows Media Audio |
Output formats
Video
Container name (file extension) | Container format | Video codecs | Audio codecs |
HLS (.m3u8 + .ts) | m3u8 | H.264, H.265 | AAC, AC3, EAC3, MP3. AAC is supported if the video codec is H.264. |
HLS (.m3u8 + fmp4) | hls-fmp4 | H.264, H.265 | AAC, AC3, EAC3, MP3 |
DASH (.mpd + fmp4) | mpd | H.264, H.265 | AAC, AC3, EAC3 |
CMAF (HLS) | cmaf-hls | H.264, H.265 | AAC, AC3, EAC3 |
CMAF (DASH) | cmaf-dash | H.264, H.265 | AAC, AC3, EAC3 |
3GP (.3gp) | 3gp | H.264 | AAC |
AVI (.avi) | avi | H.264, H.265 | AAC, AC3, MP2, MP3, FLAC, VORBIS, WMA, pcm_s16le |
FLV (.flv) | flv | H.264 | AAC, MP3 |
F4V (.f4v) | f4v | H.264 | AAC, MP3 |
fMP4 (.mp4) | fmp4 | H.264, H.265, AV1 | AAC, AC3, EAC3, MP2, MP3, FLAC, VORBIS |
MKV (.mkv) | mkv | H.264, H.265 | AAC, AC3, MP2, MP3, FLAC, VORBIS, WMA, pcm_s16le |
MOV (.mov) | mov | H.264, H.265 | AAC, AC3, EAC3, MP3, FLAC, pcm_s16le |
MP4 (.mp4) | mp4 | H.264, H.265, AV1 | AAC, AC3, EAC3, MP2, MP3, FLAC, VORBIS |
MPEG-2 TS (.ts) | ts | H.264, H.265 | AAC, MP3 |
MXF (.mxf) | mxf | H.264 | pcm_s16le |
WebM (.mkv/webm) | webm | AV1 | OPUS, VORBIS |
GIF (.gif) | gif | GIF | Not supported |
WEBP (.webp) | webp | WEBP | Not supported |
Audio
Container format (file extension) | Container format | Audio codecs |
AAC (.aac) | aac | AAC |
M4A (.m4a) | m4a | AAC |
MP2 (.mp2) | mp2 | MP2 |
MP3 (.mp3) | mp3 | MP3 |
MP4 (.mp4) | mp4 | AAC, MP3 |
OGG (.ogg) | ogg | VORBIS, FLAC |
FLAC (.flac) | flac | FLAC |
WAV (.wav) | wav | pcm_s16le |