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Revision as of 21:28, 29 March 2007

This is an unofficial and experimental page that lists the audio/video codecs that VLC can or cannot read. You can get the official features page on VideoLAN website.

Don't use this page as a reference


Video Codecs

Contrib Status
Name FOURCC Decoder Encoder library Comment
MPEG-1 Part 2 Yes Yes libmpeg2 , ffmpeg
MPEG-2 Part 2 Yes Yes libmpeg2 , ffmpeg
Divx (1, 2, 3) Yes Yes ffmpeg
DivX 4, 5, Xvid, 3ivx D4, MPEG-4 Yes Yes ffmpeg
MPEG-4 Part 2 Yes Yes ffmpeg
H.264 / X.264 Yes Yes ffmpeg (decode), x264 (encode)
Sorenson 1/3 (Quicktime) Yes Yes ffmpeg
DV Yes Yes ffmpeg
Cinepak Yes ?? internal
Theora Yes Yes broken libtheora
H.263 / H.263i Yes Yes ffmpeg
H.261 Yes Yes ffmpeg
MJPEG (A/B) Yes Yes ffmpeg ???
WMV 1/2 Yes Yes ffmepg
WMV 3 / WMV-9 / VC-1 Yes No ffmpeg
On2 VP6 VP60, VP61, VP62, VP6F Yes ?? ffmpeg
Indeo Video v3 IV32 Yes No ??
Indeo Video v4/5 IV41, IV51 Yes No ??
Real Video 1.0, 1.3, 2.0 RV10, RV13, RV20 Yes No ffmpeg
Real Video 3 No No
Dirac Yes Yes dirac
Huffyuv / Lagarith ?? ??
SheerVideo ?? ??
CorePNG ?? ??
MSU Lossless ?? ??
Snow ?? ??
VP 7 No No
Pixlet ?? ??

Audio Codecs

Contrib Status
Name FOURCC Decoder Encoder library Comment
MP3 Yes Yes libmad (decoding), ffmpeg-mp3lame (recompile needed) ISO/IEC MPEG
MPEG-Audio 1 Layer 2 Yes Yes libmad (decoding), twolame (encoding) ISO/IEC MPEG
AAC Yes Yes faad (decode), faac (encoding) ISO/IEC MPEG
HE-AAC Yes Yes faad (decode), faac (encoding) ISO/IEC MPEG
AC-3 Yes Yes liba52 (decode), ffmpeg (encode)
ATRAC No No
iLBC No No to check
Mu-Law Yes No ffmpeg (check for encoder)
NellyMoser No No to chek
Real Audio lpcJ, 28_8, dnet, sipr, cook, atrc, raac, racp, ralf Yes No Some works. atrc, ralf don't
Shorten shrn No No ffmpeg and ffplay do it. VLC doesn't. (It is in the FOURCC list in VLC's ffmpeg.c Dionoea)
Speex Yes Yes libspeex
Vorbis Yes Yes libvorbis
DTS Yes No libdca DTS-HD unsupported
MPC Yes No libmpcdec
WMA Yes Yes ffmpeg WMA9 is not supported
Flac Yes Yes libflac lossless
Apple Lossless Audio Codec No No ffmpeg can decode it - lossless (Also listed in VLC's ffmpeg.c Dionoea)
Monkey's Audio No No lossless - NON FREE LICENSE
Musepack Yes No libmpcdec

Subtitles Codecs

Contrib Status
Name