Streaming Media Monitoring Tool | Media Stream Monitoring Codecs List

On February 5, 2013, Dotcom-Monitor announced ServerView Monitoring™ Media Stream. This media stream monitoring technology continually tests internet streams in Chrome, Flash, and Windows Media stream formats. This new Streaming Media Monitoring Tool has the capability to monitor hundreds of online stream formats and codecs from an external “user experience” perspective. Customized instant alerts may be setup for each streaming media monitoring instance to check performance and availability 24×7.

In addition to this SaaS based service, a Free Instant Media Stream Test is also available for personal or business use.

Streaming Media Monitoring - List of Codecs

 

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

Dotcom-Monitor Streaming Media Monitoring – List of Currently Supported Media Codecs

MEDIA STREAM MONITORING CODECS*
D….. = Decoding supported
.E…. = Encoding supported
..V… = Video codec
..A… = Audio codec
..S… = Subtitle codec
…S.. = Supports draw_horiz_band
….D. = Supports direct rendering method 1
…..T = Supports weird frame truncation
D V D 4xm 4X Movie
D V D 8bps QuickTime 8BPS video
D A D 8svx_exp 8SVX exponential
D A D 8svx_fib 8SVX fibonacci
EV a64multi Multicolor charset for Commod ore 64
EV a64multi5 Multicolor charset Commod ore 64, ext w/ 5th color (colram)
DEA D aac Advanced Audio Coding
D A D aac_latm AAC LATM (Advanced Aud io Code c L ATM syntax)
D V D aasc Autodesk RLE
DEA D ac3 ATSC A/52A (AC-3)
EA ac3_fixed ATSC A/52A (AC-3)
D A D adpcm_4xm ADPCM 4X Movie
DEA D adpcm_adx SEGA CRI ADX ADPCM
D A D adpcm_ct ADPCM Creative Technol ogy
D A D adpcm_ea ADPCM Electronic Arts
D A D adpcm_ea_maxis_xa ADPCM Electronic Art s Maxis CD ROM XA
D A D adpcm_ea_r1 ADPCM Electronic Arts R1
D A D adpcm_ea_r2 ADPCM Electronic Arts R2
D A D adpcm_ea_r3 ADPCM Electronic Arts R3
D A D adpcm_ea_xas ADPCM Electronic Arts XAS
D A D adpcm_ima_amv ADPCM IMA AMV
D A D adpcm_ima_apc ADPCM IMA CRYO APC
D A D adpcm_ima_dk3 ADPCM IMA Duck DK3
D A D adpcm_ima_dk4 ADPCM IMA Duck DK4
D A D adpcm_ima_ea_eacs ADPCM IMA Electronic Arts E ACS
D A D adpcm_ima_ea_sead ADPCM IMA Electronic Arts S EAD
D A D adpcm_ima_iss ADPCM IMA Funcom ISS
DEA D adpcm_ima_qt ADPCM IMA QuickTime
D A D adpcm_ima_smjpeg ADPCM IMA Loki SDL MJ PEG
DEA D adpcm_ima_wav ADPCM IMA WAV
D A D adpcm_ima_ws ADPCM IMA Westwood
DEA D adpcm_ms ADPCM Microsoft
D A D adpcm_sbpro_2 ADPCM Sound Blaster Pr o 2-bit
D A D adpcm_sbpro_3 ADPCM Sound Blaster Pr o 2.6-b it
D A D adpcm_sbpro_4 ADPCM Sound Blaster Pr o 4-bit
DEA D adpcm_swf ADPCM Shockwave Flash
D A D adpcm_thp ADPCM Nintendo Gamecub e THP
D A D adpcm_xa ADPCM CDROM XA
DEA D adpcm_yamaha ADPCM Yamaha
DEA D alac ALAC (Apple Lossless A udio Co dec )
D A D als MPEG-4 Audio Lossless Coding (AL S)
D A D amrnb Adaptive Multi-Rate Na rrowBan d
D A D amrwb Adaptive Multi-Rate Wi deBand
DEV amv AMV Video
D V D anm Deluxe Paint Animation
D V D ansi ASCII/ANSI art
D A D ape Monkey’s Audio
DES ass Advanced SubStation Al pha sub tit le
DEV D asv1 ASUS V1
DEV D asv2 ASUS V2
D A D atrac1 Atrac 1 (Adaptive TRan sform A cou stic Coding)
D A D atrac3 Atrac 3 (Adaptive TRan sform A cou stic Coding 3)
D V D aura Auravision AURA
D V D aura2 Auravision Aura 2
DEV D avrp Avid 1:1 10-bit RGB Pa cker
D V D avs AVS (Audio Video Stand ard) vi deo
DEV D ayuv Uncompressed packed MS 0.169490740740741 4
D V D bethsoftvid Bethesda VID video
D V D bfi Brute Force & Ignoranc e
D A D binkaudio_dct Bink Audio (DCT)
D A D binkaudio_rdft Bink Audio (RDFT)
D V binkvideo Bink video
D V D bintext Binary text
DEV D bmp BMP image
D A D bmv_audio Discworld II BMV audio
D V bmv_video Discworld II BMV video
D V D c93 Interplay C93
D V D camstudio CamStudio
D V D cavs Chinese AVS video (AVS 1-P2, J iZh un profile)
D V D cdgraphics CD Graphics video
D V D cdxl Commodore CDXL video
D V D cinepak Cinepak
DEV D cljr Cirrus Logic AccuPak
D A D cook COOK
D V D cyuv Creative YUV (CYUV)
DEA D dca DCA (DTS Coherent Acoustics)
D V D dfa Chronomaster DFA
D V dirac BBC Dirac VC-2
DEV D dnxhd VC3/DNxHD
DEV dpx DPX image
D A D dsicinaudio Delphine Software International CIN audio
D V D dsicinvideo Delphine Software International CIN video
DES dvbsub DVB subtitles
DES dvdsub DVD subtitles
DEV D dvvideo DV (Digital Video)
D V D dxtory Dxtory
DEA D eac3 ATSC A/52 E-AC-3
D V D eacmv Electronic Arts CMV video
D V D eamad Electronic Arts Madcow Video
D V D eatgq Electronic Arts TGQ video
D V eatgv Electronic Arts TGV video
D V D eatqi Electronic Arts TQI Video
D V D escape124 Escape 124
D V D escape130 Escape 130
DEV D ffv1 FFmpeg video codec #1
DEVSD ffvhuff Huffyuv FFmpeg variant
DEA D flac FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec)
D V D flic Autodesk Animator Flic video
DEVSD flv Flash Video (FLV) / Sorenson Spark / Sorenson H.263
D V D fraps Fraps
D V D frwu Forward Uncompressed
DEA D g722 G.722 ADPCM
DEA g723_1 G.723.1
DEA D g726 G.726 ADPCM
D A D g729 G.729
DEV D gif GIF (Graphics Interchange Format )
D A D gsm GSM
D A D gsm_ms GSM Microsoft variant
DEV D h261 H.261
DEVSDT h263 H.263 / H.263-1996
D VSD h263i Intel H.263
EV h263p H.263+ / H.263-1998 / H.263 version 2
D V D h264 H.264 / AVC / MPEG-4 A VC / MPEG- 4 part 10
DEVSD huffyuv Huffyuv / HuffYUV
D V D idcinvideo id Quake II CIN video
D V D idf iCEDraw text
D V D iff_byterun1 IFF ByteRun1
D V D iff_ilbm IFF ILBM
D A D imc IMC (Intel Music Coder)
D V D indeo2 Intel Indeo 2
D V indeo3 Intel Indeo 3
D V indeo4 Intel Indeo Video Interactive 4
D V indeo5 Intel Indeo Video Interactive 5
D A D interplay_ dpcm  DPCM Interplay
D V D interplayv ideo  Interplay MVE video
DEV j2k JPEG 2000
DEV D jpegls JPEG-LS
D V D jv Bitmap Brothers JV video
D V kgv1 Kega Game Video
D V D kmvc Karl Morton’s video codec
D V D lagarith Lagarith lossless
EV ljpeg Lossless JPEG
D V D loco LOCO
D A D mace3 MACE (Macintosh Audio Compression/Expansion) 3:1
D A D mace6 MACE (Macintosh Audio Compression/Expansion) 6:1
D V D mdec Sony PlayStation MDEC (Motion DE Coder)
D V D mimic Mimic
DEV D mjpeg MJPEG (Motion JPEG)
D V D mjpegb Apple MJPEG-B
D A D mlp MLP (Meridian Lossless Packin g)
D V D mmvideo American Laser Games M M Video
D V D motionpixels Motion Pixels video
D A D mp1 MP1 (MPEG audio layer 1)
D A D mp1float MP1 (MPEG audio layer 1)
DEA D mp2 MP2 (MPEG audio layer 2)
D A D mp2float MP2 (MPEG audio layer 2)
D A D mp3 MP3 (MPEG audio layer 3)
D A D mp3adu ADU (Application Data Unit) MP3 (MPEG audio layer 3)
D A D mp3adufloat ADU (Application Data Unit) MP3 (MPEG audio layer 3)
D A D mp3float MP3 (MPEG audio layer 3)
D A D mp3on4 MP3onMP4
D A D mp3on4float MP3onMP4
D A D mpc7 Musepack SV7
D A D mpc8 Musepack SV8
DEVSDT mpeg1video MPEG-1 video
DEVSDT mpeg2video MPEG-2 video
DEVSDT mpeg4 MPEG-4 part 2
D VSDT mpegvideo MPEG-1 video
DEVSD msmpeg4 MPEG-4 part 2 Microsoft variant version 3
D VSD msmpeg4v1 MPEG-4 part 2 Microsoft variant version 1
DEVSD msmpeg4v2 MPEG-4 part 2 Microsoft variant version 2
D V D msrle Microsoft RLE
DEV D msvideo1 Microsoft Video-1
D V D mszh LCL (LossLess Codec Li brary) MSZ H
D V D mxpeg Mobotix MxPEG video
DEA D nellymoser Nellymoser Asao
D V D nuv NuppelVideo/RTJPEG
DEV D pam PAM (Portable AnyMap) image
DEV D pbm PBM (Portable BitMap) image
DEA D pcm_alaw PCM A-law / G.711 A-la w
D A D pcm_bluray PCM signed 16|20|24-bi t big-endian for Blu-ray media
D A D pcm_dvd PCM signed 20|24-bit b ig-endian
DEA D pcm_f32be PCM 32-bit floating point big-endian
DEA D pcm_f32le PCM 32-bit floating point little-endian
DEA D pcm_f64be PCM 64-bit floating point big-endian
DEA D pcm_f64le PCM 64-bit floating point little-endian
D A D pcm_lxf PCM signed 20-bit little-endian planar
DEA D pcm_mulaw PCM mu-law / G.711 mu- law
DEA D pcm_s16be PCM signed 16-bit big-endian
DEA D pcm_s16le PCM signed 16-bit litt le-endi an
D A D pcm_s16le_planar PCM 16-bit little-endian planar
DEA D pcm_s24be PCM signed 24-bit big-endian
DEA D pcm_s24daud PCM D-Cinema audio signed 24- bit
DEA D pcm_s24le PCM signed 24-bit little-endian
DEA D pcm_s32be PCM signed 32-bit big-endian
DEA D pcm_s32le PCM signed 32-bit little-endian
DEA D pcm_s8 PCM signed 8-bit
D A D pcm_s8_planar PCM signed 8-bit planar
DEA D pcm_u16be PCM unsigned 16-bit big-endian
DEA D pcm_u16le PCM unsigned 16-bit little-endian
DEA D pcm_u24be PCM unsigned 24-bit big-endian
DEA D pcm_u24le PCM unsigned 24-bit little-endian
DEA D pcm_u32be PCM unsigned 32-bit big-endian
DEA D pcm_u32le PCM unsigned 32-bit little-endian
DEA D pcm_u8 PCM unsigned 8-bit
D A D pcm_zork PCM Zork
DEV D pcx PC Paintbrush PCX image
DEV D pgm PGM (Portable GrayMap) image
DEV D pgmyuv PGMYUV (Portable GrayM ap YUV) image
D S pgssub HDMV Presentation Graphic Stream subtitles
D V D pictor Pictor/PC Paint
DEV D ppm PPM (Portable PixelMap ) image
DEV D prores Apple ProRes
EV prores_anatoliy Apple ProRes
EV prores_kostya Apple ProRes (iCodec P ro)
D V D prores_lgpl Apple ProRes (iCodec P ro)
D V D ptx V.Flash PTX image
D A D qcelp QCELP / PureVoice
D A D qdm2 QDesign Music Codec 2
D V D qdraw Apple QuickDraw
D V D qpeg Q-team QPEG
DEV D qtrle QuickTime Animation (R LE) video
DEV D r10k AJA Kona 10-bit RGB Codec
DEV D r210 Uncompressed RGB 10-bit
DEV rawvideo raw video
DEA D real_144 RealAudio 1.0 (14.4K)
D A D real_288 RealAudio 2.0 (28.8K)
D V D rl2 RL2 video
DEA D roq_dpcm id RoQ DPCM
DEV D roqvideo id RoQ video
D V D rpza QuickTime video (RPZA)
DEV D rv10 RealVideo 1.0
DEV D rv20 RealVideo 2.0
D V D rv30 RealVideo 3.0
D V D rv40 RealVideo 4.0
D A D s302m SMPTE 302M
DEV sgi SGI image
D A D shorten Shorten
D A D sipr RealAudio SIPR / ACELP .NET
D A D smackaud Smacker audio
D V D smackvid Smacker video
D V D smc QuickTime Graphics (SM C)
DEV D snow Snow
D A D sol_dpcm DPCM Sol
DEA sonic Sonic
EA sonicls Sonic lossless
D V D sp5x Sunplus JPEG (SP5X)
DES srt SubRip subtitle
DEV D sunrast Sun Rasterfile image
DEV D svq1 Sorenson Vector Quanti zer 1 / So renson Video 1 / SVQ1
D VSD svq3 Sorenson Vector Quanti zer 3 / So renson Video 3 / SVQ3
DEV D targa Truevision Targa image
D VSD theora Theora
D V D thp Nintendo Gamecube THP video
D V D tiertexseq video Tiertex Limited SEQ vi deo
DEV D tiff TIFF image
D V D tmv 8088flex TMV
D A D truehd TrueHD
D V D truemotion 1 Duck TrueMotion 1.0
D V D truemotion 2 Duck TrueMotion 2.0
D A D truespeech DSP Group TrueSpeech
D A D tta True Audio (TTA)
D A D twinvq VQF TwinVQ
D V D txd Renderware TXD (TeXture Dictionary) image
D V D ultimotion IBM UltiMotion
D V D utvideo Ut Video
DEV D v210 Uncompressed 4:2:2 10- bit
D V D v210x Uncompressed 4:2:2 10- bit
DEV D v308 Uncompressed packed 4: 0.169444444444444
DEV D v408 Uncompressed packed QT 0.169490740740741 4
DEV D v410 Uncompressed 4:4:4 10- bit
D V vb Beam Software VB
D V D vble VBLE Lossless Codec
D V D vc1 SMPTE VC-1
D V D vc1image Windows Media Video 9 Image v 2
D V D vcr1 ATI VCR1
D A D vmdaudio Sierra VMD audio
D V D vmdvideo Sierra VMD video
D V D vmnc VMware Screen Codec / VMware Video
DEA D vorbis Vorbis
D VSD vp3 On2 VP3
D V D vp5 On2 VP5
D V D vp6 On2 VP6
D V D vp6a On2 VP6 (Flash version , with alpha channel)
D V D vp6f On2 VP6 (Flash version )
D V D vp8 On2 VP8
D V D vqavideo Westwood Studios VQA ( Vector Quantized Animation) video
D A D wavesynth Wave synthesis pseudo- codec
D A D wavpack WavPack
D A D wmalossless Windows Media Audio 9 Lossless
D A D wmapro Windows Media Audio 9 Professional
DEA D wmav1 Windows Media Audio 1
DEA D wmav2 Windows Media Audio 2
D A D wmavoice Windows Media Audio Voice
DEVSD wmv1 Windows Media Video 7
DEVSD wmv2 Windows Media Video 8
D V D wmv3 Windows Media Video 9
D V D wmv3image Windows Media Video 9 Image
D V D wnv1 Winnov WNV1
D A D ws_snd1 Westwood Audio (SND1)
D A D xan_dpcm DPCM Xan
D V D xan_wc3 Wing Commander III / X an
D V D xan_wc4 Wing Commander IV / Xx an
D V D xbin eXtended BINary text
D V D xl Miro VideoXL
DES xsub DivX subtitles (XSUB)
DEV D xwd XWD (X Window Dump) image
DEV D y41p Uncompressed YUV 4:1:1 12-bit
D V yop Psygnosis YOP Video
DEV D yuv4 Uncompressed packed 4: 0.0833333333333333

*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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