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Revision as of 22:48, 16 January 2006
Codec is short for coder/decoder. For portability to almost all decoders, we recommend using vcodec=mp1v (MPEG 1 video), acodec=mpga (MPEG 1 layer 1 audio), and mux=mpeg1 (MPEG 1 multiplexing).
Some examples are in the capture card how to
Official documentation: list of codecs
Video Codecs
| name | description |
| mp1v | MPEG-1 Video - recommended for portability |
| mp2v | MPEG-2 Video - used in DVDs |
| mp4v | MPEG-4 Video |
| Sorenson Video | |
| Windows Media Video | |
| Digital Video | |
| MJPG | MJPEG |
| H263 | H263 |
| h264 | H264 |
| theo | Theora |
| Indeo Video | |
| Real Media Video | |
| Cinepak | |
| On2 VP | |
| Flash Video | |
| Creative YUV | |
| Huffman YUV |
Audio Codecs
| name | description |
| mpga | MPEG audio (recommended for portability) |
| mp3 | MPEG Layer 3 audio |
| mp4a | MP4 audio |
| a52 or ac3 | Dolby Digital (A52 or AC3) |
| DTS | |
| vorb | Vorbis |
| spx | Speex |
| AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) | |
| Windows Media Audio | |
| DV Audio | |
| flac or fl32 | FLAC |
| LPCM | |
| ADPCM | |
| AMR | |
| QuickTime Audio | |
| Real Audio | |
| MACE | |
| MusePack |
Muxers
| name | description |
| ts | MPEG-TS (Transport Stream) for streaming MPEG |
| ps | MPEG-PS for saving MPEGs to disk |
| avi | AVI |
| mp4 | MPEG-4 |
| asf | ASF |
| dummy | dummy output, can be used in creation of MP3 files. |
| ogg | Ogg Vorbis files |
