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An engineer tests audio and video file cards beside a media player with a successful check.Earlier this week Dotcom-Monitor announced ServerView Media Stream Monitoring. This technology allows users to monitor a broad range of streaming content from an external “user experience” perspective. In addition to comprehensive data and diagnostic aspects, customizable alerts may be setup for each media stream to continually monitor media performance and availability. Interactive waterfall charts and drill downs amongst the data allow users to locate and repair problems, significantly reducing mean-time-to-repair (MTTR).

In addition to Dotcom-Monitor’s Media Stream Service, a Free Instant Streaming Media Test is also available.

Media Stream Monitoring - List of Formats

 

Below is a list of streaming media formats currently available for monitoring and testing:

Dotcom-Monitor Media Stream Monitoring – List of Currently Supported Media Formats

MEDIA STREAM FILE FORMATS*
D. = Demuxing supported
.E = Muxing supported
E 3g2 3GP2 format
E 3gp 3GP format
D 4xm 4X Technologies format
D IFF IFF format
D ISS Funcom ISS format
D MTV MTV format
DE RoQ raw id RoQ format
E a64 a64 – video for Commodore 64
D aac raw ADTS AAC
DE ac3 raw AC-3
D act ACT Voice file format
D adf Artworx Data Format
E adts ADTS AAC
DE adx CRI ADX
D aea MD STUDIO audio
DE aiff Audio IFF
DE alaw PCM A-law format
DE amr 3GPP AMR file format
D anm Deluxe Paint Animation
D apc CRYO APC format
D ape Monkey’s Audio
DE asf ASF format
E asf_stream ASF format
DE ass Advanced SubStation Alpha subtitle format
DE au SUN AU format
DE avi AVI format
E avm2 Flash 9 (AVM2) format
D avs AVS format
D bethsoftvid Bethesda Softworks VID format
D bfi Brute Force & Ignorance
D bin Binary text
D bink Bink
DE bit G.729 BIT file format
D bmv Discworld II BMV
D c93 Interplay C93
DE caf Apple Core Audio Format
DE cavsvideo raw Chinese AVS video
D cdg CD Graphics Format
D cdxl Commodore CDXL video format
E crc CRC testing format
DE daud D-Cinema audio format
D dfa Chronomaster DFA
DE dirac raw Dirac
DE dnxhd raw DNxHD (SMPTE VC-3)
D dsicin Delphine Software International CIN format
DE dts raw DTS
DE dv DV video format
E dvd MPEG-2 PS format (DVD VOB)
D dxa DXA
D ea Electronic Arts Multimedia Format
D ea_cdata Electronic Arts cdata
DE eac3 raw E-AC-3
DE f32be PCM 32 bit floating-point big-endian format
DE f32le PCM 32 bit floating-point little-endian format
DE f64be PCM 64 bit floating-point big-endian format
DE f64le PCM 64 bit floating-point little-endian format
DE ffm FFM (FFserver live feed) format
DE ffmetadata FFmpeg metadata in text format
D film_cpk Sega FILM/CPK format
DE filmstrip Adobe Filmstrip
DE flac raw FLAC
D flic FLI/FLC/FLX animation format
DE flv FLV format
E framecrc framecrc testing format
E framemd5 Per-frame MD5 testing format
DE g722 raw G.722
DE g723_1 raw G.723.1
D g729 G.729 raw format demuxer
E gif GIF Animation
D gsm raw GSM
DE gxf GXF format
DE h261 raw H.261
DE h263 raw H.263
DE h264 raw H.264 video format
D hls,applehttps Apple HTTP Live Streaming format
D ico Microsoft Windows ICO
D idcin id Cinematic format
D idf iCE Draw File
DE image2 image2 sequence
DE image2pipe piped image2 sequence
D ingenient raw Ingenient MJPEG
D ipmovie Interplay MVE format
E ipod iPod H.264 MP4 format
E ismv ISMV/ISMA (Smooth Streaming) format
D iv8 A format generated by IndigoVision 8000 video server
DE ivf On2 IVF
D jv Bitmap Brothers JV
DE latm LOAS/LATM
D lavfi Libavfilter virtual input device
D lmlm4 lmlm4 raw format
D loas LOAS AudioSyncStream
D lxf VR native stream format (LXF)
DE m4v raw MPEG-4 video format
E matroska Matroska file format
D matroska,webm Matroska/WebM file format
E md5 MD5 testing format
DE microdvd MicroDVD subtitle format
DE mjpeg raw MJPEG video
E mkvtimestamp_v2 extract pts as timecode v2 format, as defined by mkvtoolnix
DE mlp raw MLP
D mm American Laser Games MM format
DE mmf Yamaha SMAF
E mov MOV format
D mov,mp4,m4a,3gp, 3g2,mj2 QuickTime/MPEG-4/Motion JPEG 2000 format
E mp2 MPEG audio layer 2
DE mp3 MPEG audio layer 3
E mp4 MP4 format
D mpc Musepack
D mpc8 Musepack SV8
DE mpeg MPEG-1 System format
E mpeg1video raw MPEG-1 video
E mpeg2video raw MPEG-2 video
DE mpegts MPEG-2 transport stream format
D mpegtsraw MPEG-2 raw transport stream format
D mpegvideo raw MPEG video
E mpjpeg MIME multipart JPEG format
D msnwctcp MSN TCP Webcam stream
DE mulaw PCM mu-law format
D mvi Motion Pixels MVI format
DE mxf Material eXchange Format
E mxf_d10 Material eXchange Format, D-10 Mapping
D mxg MxPEG clip file format
D nc NC camera feed format
D nsv Nullsoft Streaming Video
E null raw null video format
DE nut NUT format
D nuv NuppelVideo format
DE ogg Ogg
DE oma Sony OpenMG audio
D pmp Playstation Portable PMP format
E psp PSP MP4 format
D psxstr Sony Playstation STR format
D pva TechnoTrend PVA file and stream format
D qcp QCP format
D r3d REDCODE R3D format
DE rawvideo raw video format
E rcv VC-1 test bitstream
D rl2 RL2 format
DE rm RealMedia format
D rpl RPL/ARMovie format
DE rso Lego Mindstorms RSO format
DE rtp RTP output format
DE rtsp RTSP output format
DE s16be PCM signed 16 bit big-endian format
DE s16le PCM signed 16 bit little-endian format
DE s24be PCM signed 24 bit big-endian format
DE s24le PCM signed 24 bit little-endian format
DE s32be PCM signed 32 bit big-endian format
DE s32le PCM signed 32 bit little-endian format
DE s8 PCM signed 8 bit format
DE sap SAP output format
D sbg SBaGen binaural beats script
D sdp SDP
E segment segment muxer
D shn raw Shorten
D siff Beam Software SIFF
DE smjpeg Loki SDL MJPEG
D smk Smacker video
D sol Sierra SOL format
DE sox SoX native format
DE spdif IEC 61937 (used on S/PDIF – IEC958)
DE srt SubRip subtitle format
E svcd MPEG-2 PS format (VOB)
DE swf Flash format
D thp THP
D tiertexseq Tiertex Limited SEQ format
D tmv 8088flex TMV
DE truehd raw TrueHD
D tta True Audio
D tty Tele-typewriter
D txd Renderware TeXture Dictionary
DE u16be PCM unsigned 16 bit big-endian format
DE u16le PCM unsigned 16 bit little-endian format
DE u24be PCM unsigned 24 bit big-endian format
DE u24le PCM unsigned 24 bit little-endian format
DE u32be PCM unsigned 32 bit big-endian format
DE u32le PCM unsigned 32 bit little-endian format
DE u8 PCM unsigned 8 bit format
D vc1 raw VC-1
D vc1test VC-1 test bitstream format
E vcd MPEG-1 System format (VCD)
D vfwcap VfW video capture
D vmd Sierra VMD format
E vob MPEG-2 PS format (VOB)
DE voc Creative Voice file format
D vqf Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) TwinVQ
D w64 Sony Wave64 format
DE wav WAV format
D wc3movie Wing Commander III movie format
E webm WebM file format
D wsaud Westwood Studios audio format
D wsvqa Westwood Studios VQA format
DE wtv Windows Television (WTV)
D wv WavPack
D xa Maxis XA File Format
D xbin eXtended BINary text (XBIN)
D xmv Microsoft XMV
D xwma Microsoft xWMA
D yop Psygnosis YOP Format
DE yuv4mpegpipe YUV4MPEG pipe format

*Note, the names of encoders and decoders do not always match, so there are several cases where the above table shows encoder-only, or decoder-only entries even though both encoding and decoding are supported. For example, the h263 decoder corresponds to the h263 and h263p encoders.

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Matthew Schmitz
About the Author
Matthew Schmitz
Director of Load and Performance Testing at Dotcom-Monitor

Matthew Schmitz is Director of Load and Performance Testing at Dotcom-Monitor, where he leads the team developing LoadView’s cloud-based load testing platform. He joined Dotcom-Monitor in 2012 and has worked in software engineering and performance testing since 2004. His work focuses on realistic load testing, capacity planning and preparing applications for peak traffic.

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