VLC Features Formats

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


Video Codecs

Contrib Status
Name FOURCC Decoded Encoded library Comment
3ivx No No
MPEG-1 Yes Yes libmpeg
MPEG-2 Yes Yes libmpeg2
Divx (1, 2, 3) Yes Yes ffmpeg
DivX 4, 5, Xvid, 3ivx D4, MPEG-4 Yes Yes ffmpeg
H.264 Yes Yes ffmpeg (decode), x264 (encode)
Sorenson 1/3 (Quicktime) Yes ?? ffmpeg
DV Yes Yes ffmpeg
Cinepak Yes ?? ffmpeg
Theora Yes Yes broken libtheora
H.263 / H.263i Yes Yes ffmpeg
MJPEG (A/B) Yes ?? ffmpeg ???
WMV 1/2 Yes Yes ffmepg
WMV 3 / WMV-9 / VC-1 Yes No ffmpeg
Indeo Video v3 IV32 Yes No ??
Indeo Video v4/5 IV41, IV51 Yes No ??
Real Video No No

Audio Codecs

Contrib Status
Name FOURCC Decoded Encoded 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 No No to chek
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
Speex Yes Yes libspeex
Vorbis Yes Yes libvorbis
DTS Yes Yes 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 lossless
Monkey's Audio No No lossless - NON FREE LICENSE