Kaltura - Video and Audio Supported File Types and Codecs

Task: This article provides a summary of the acceptable file types and codecs one can import into Kaltura.

Instructions:

Kaltura accepts both audio-only and video files for upload. 

Media File Formats

  • Mpeg-4 and QuickTime Formats (MP4, MOV, QT, and M4V)
  • Flash Video (FLV and F4V)
  • Microsoft Windows Formats (AVI, ASF, WMV and WMA)
  • MPEG-1/2 (MPG, M1V, M2V, MP3)
  • WAV
  • Matroska (MKV)
  • OGG OGM & OGV
  • WEBM
  • 3GP
  • RM
  • Webex (ARF)
  • MXF

Video Codecs

  • DivX (Div3/4/5, DX50)
  • DV
  • H.263, H.264 and AVC,H.265
  • MPEG-4 Visual, MPEG-1/2, MJPG, MP42/3
  • IV40/50 (Indeo codecs)
  • RV30/40, RMVB
  • FLV1/4
  • VP3/5/6/7/8/9
  • Sorenson (SVQ1/3)
  • Xvid
  • Theora
  • WMV1/2/3
  • VC1
  • ProRes 422
  • ICOD
  • DVCPRO
  • PXLT
  • TCSS/TCS2
  • GoToMeeting Codec (G2M3/4)

The Maximum Video Frame Size is 5000 x 5000.

Audio Codecs

  • MP3
  • MP1/2
  • AC3
  • EAC3
  • AAC
  • Vorbis
  • AMR
  • PCM
  • WMA7/8/9
  • WMSpeech
  • FLAC
  • QDM2
  • RA
  • Nellymoser
  • Cook
  • GSM
  • SPEEX

Outcome:

Users should know what file types and codecs Kaltura supports for both audio and video content.

Further reading:

Kaltura's website

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