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Formats and Codecs

Zac Walker edited this page Jun 29, 2026 · 2 revisions

File formats and codecs supported by Diffractor are listed below.

Image Formats

Extensions Description
BMP Microsoft Windows Bitmap
DC2, DCR, DRF, DSC, K25, KC2, KDC Kodak raw
GIF, GIFF CompuServe's Graphics Interchange Format
ICO Microsoft Windows icon
IFF ILBM
JP2 JPEG2000
JPEG, JPG, JPE, JFIF Joint Photographic Experts Group
JPX Jpeg 2000
LBM ILBM
MNG Multiple Network Graphics animation
HEIF, HEIFS, HEIC, HEICS, AVCI, AVCS, AVIF, AVIFS High Efficiency Image File Format
PBM Portable bitmap
PCT Apple Macintosh PICT image
PCX ZSoft's PC Paint image
PGM Portable graymap
PICT Apple Macintosh PICT image
PNG Portable Network Graphic
PPM Portable Pixmap
PSD Adobe Photoshop Drawing
SGI Silicon Graphics Image
TGA, TARGA Truevision TGA (Targa) image
TIFF, TIF Tagged Image File Format
CIN Kodak Cineon Image
DPX Digital Picture Exchange
XBM X Window System Bitmap
XPM X Window System Pixmap

Raw Photo Formats

Extensions Description
ARW, SR2, SRF Sony Raw
BAY Casio Raw
BMQ NuCore Raw
CAP Phase One Raw
CINE Phantom Raw
CRW, CR2, CR3 Canon raw
CS1, STI, IA Sinar raw
DNG Adobe Digital Negative
ERF Epson Raw
MFW Mamiya raw
RAW Panasonic raw
FFF Imacon raw
IIQ Phase One raw
MDC, MRW Minolta raw
MEF Mamiya raw
MOS Leaf raw
NEF, NRW Nikon raw
ORF Olympus raw
PEF, PTX Pentax raw
PXN Logitech raw
QTK Apple Quicktake raw
RAF Fuji raw
RDC Digital Foto Maker raw
RW2 Panasonic raw
RWL Leica raw
RWZ Rawzor raw
SRW Samsung raw
X3F Sigma raw

Video and Container Formats

Extensions Description
3FR Hasselblad Raw
AMR GSM and UMTS mobile phone video
ASF Windows Media
AST Audio Stream
AVI Audio Visual Interleave
BRSTM Binary Revolution Stream
CDXL Commodore CDXL video
DTS DTS (sound system)
DTSHD DTS (sound system)
FLV Flash video
GSM GSM Full Rate
IVF Indeo Video Technology
M2TS MPEG-2 TS video
MKV Matroska video
MP4, MP4A, MP4V, M4V, M4B, F4V, 3G2, 3GP2, 3GP, 3GPP, CRM MPEG-4
CRM Canon Cinema RAW Light
MPEG, MPG, MPE, M1V, M2V, MP2, MPV, M2P, M2T, MPE, VOB, MS-PVR, DVR-MS MPEG
AVC1 Advanced Video Coding
MXF SMPTE Material Exchange Format
PSP Paint Shop Pro image
RMD, R3D RED
RGB Silicon Graphics Image
RM RealAudio (RA, RM)
ROQ Quake 3 video
SHN Shorten (SHN)
SWF Macromedia Flash
TAK Tom's Lossless Audio Kompressor
VOC Creative Labs Soundblaster
VQF Yamaha TwinVQ
WMV, WM Windows Media video
YUV Raw YUV video format

Audio Formats

Extensions Description
AAC, ADT, ADTS Advanced Audio Coding
AIF, AIFC, AIFF Audio Interchange File Format
AU, SND Sun Microsystems and NeXT audio
APE Monkey's Audio (APE)
CDA CD Audio Track
FLAC Free Lossless Audio
MID, MIDI, RMI Musical Instrument Digital Interface
MP3 MPEG Layer 3
M4A, MP4A, M4R MPEG-4 Audio
M4P MPEG-4 (DRM)
MPC Musepack
MPA, M2A MPEG
OGG container, multimedia
RA, RM RealAudio
SPX Speex low bitrate audio
TTA True Audio
WAV Microsoft Wave
WMA Windows Media Audio 9
WV WavPack

Video Codecs

aasc, aic, alias_pix, agm, amv, anm, ansi, apng, arbc, argo, asv1, asv2, aura, aura2, avrp, avrn, avs, avui, bethsoftvid, bfi, binkvideo, bitpacked, bmp, bmv_video, brender_pix, c93, cavs, cdgraphics, cdtoons, cdxl, cfhd, cinepak, clearvideo, cljr, cllc, cpia, cri, camstudio, cyuv, dds, dfa, dirac, dnxhd, dpx, dsicinvideo, dvvideo, dxa, dxtory, dxv, eacmv, eamad, eatgq, eatgv, eatqi, 8bps, escape124, escape130, exr, ffv1, ffvhuff, fic, fits, flashsv, flashsv2, flic, flv, fmvc, 4xm, fraps, frwu, g2m, gdv, gem, gif, h261, h263, h263i, h263p, h264, hap, hevc, hnm4video, hq_hqa, hqx, huffyuv, hymt, idcinvideo, iff, imm4, imm5, interplayvideo, ipu, jpeg2000, jpegls, jv, kgv1, kmvc, lagarith, lead, loco, lscr, m101, magicyuv, mdec, media100, mimic, mjpeg, mjpegb, mmvideo, mobiclip, motionpixels, mpeg1video, mpeg2video, mpeg4, mpegvideo, msa1, mscc, msmpeg4v1, msmpeg4v2, msmpeg4, msp2, msrle, mss1, mss2, msvideo1, mszh, mts2, mv30, mvc1, mvc2, mvdv, mvha, mwsc, mxpeg, notchlc, nuv, paf_video, pam, pbm, pcx, pdv, pfm, pgm, pgmyuv, pgx, phm, photocd, pictor, pixlet, png, ppm, prores, prosumer, psd, ptx, qdraw, qoi, qpeg, qtrle, r10k, r210, rasc, rawvideo, rl2, roqvideo, rpza, rscc, rtv1, rv10, rv20, rv30, rv40, sanm, scpr, screenpresso, sga, sgi, sgirle, sheervideo, simbiosis_imx, smackvid, smc, smvjpeg, snow, sp5x, speedhq, srgc, sunrast, svq1, svq3, targa, targa_y216, tdsc, theora, thp, tiertexseqvideo, tiff, tmv, truemotion1, truemotion2, truemotion2rt, camtasia, tscc2, txd, ultimotion, utvideo, v210, v210x, v308, v408, v410, vb, vbn, vble, vc1, vc1image, vcr1, vmdvideo, vmix, vmnc, vp3, vp4, vp5, vp6, vp6a, vp6f, vp7, vp8, vp9, vqavideo, vqc, vvc, wbmp, webp, wcmv, wrapped_avframe, wmv1, wmv2, wmv3, wmv3image, wnv1, xan_wc3, xan_wc4, xbm, xface, xl, xpm, xwd, y41p, ylc, yop, yuv4, 012v, zerocodec, zlib, zmbv, hdr, bintext, xbin, idf, libdav1d, av1, vnull

Audio Codecs

comfortnoise, dvaudio, 8svx_exp, 8svx_fib, rka, s302m, speex, aac, aac_fixed, aac_latm, ac3, ac3_fixed, acelp.kelvin, alac, als, amrnb, amrwb, apac, ape, aptx, aptx_hd, atrac1, atrac3, atrac3al, atrac3plusal, atrac9, binkaudio_dct, binkaudio_rdft, bmv_audio, bonk, cook, dca, dfpwm, dolby_e, dsd_lsbf, dsd_msbf, dsd_lsbf_planar, dsd_msbf_planar, dsicinaudio, dss_sp, dst, eac3, evrc, fastaudio, wavesynth, flac, ftr, g723_1, g729, gsm, gsm_ms, hca, hcom, iac, ilbc, imc, interplayacm, mace3, mace6, metasound, misc4, mlp, mp1, mp1float, mp2, mp2float, mp3float, mp3, mp3adufloat, mp3adu, mp3on4float, mp3on4, mpc7, mpc8, msnsiren, nellymoser, on2avc, opus, osq, paf_audio, qcelp, qdm2, qdmc, qoa, real_144, real_288, ralf, sbc, shorten, sipr, siren, smackaud, sonic, tak, truehd, truespeech, tta, vmdaudio, vorbis, wavarc, wavpack, wmalossless, wmapro, wmav1, wmav2, wmavoice, ws_snd1, xma1, xma2, pcm_alaw, pcm_bluray, pcm_dvd, pcm_f16le, pcm_f24le, pcm_f32be, pcm_f32le, pcm_f64be, pcm_f64le, pcm_lxf, pcm_mulaw, pcm_s8, pcm_s8_planar, pcm_s16be, pcm_s16be_planar, pcm_s16le, pcm_s16le_planar, pcm_s24be, pcm_s24daud, pcm_s24le, pcm_s24le_planar, pcm_s32be, pcm_s32le, pcm_s32le_planar, pcm_s64be, pcm_s64le, pcm_sga, pcm_u8, pcm_u16be, pcm_u16le, pcm_u24be, pcm_u24le, pcm_u32be, pcm_u32le, pcm_vidc, cbd2_dpcm, derf_dpcm, gremlin_dpcm, interplay_dpcm, roq_dpcm, sdx2_dpcm, sol_dpcm, xan_dpcm, wady_dpcm, adpcm_4xm, adpcm_adx, adpcm_afc, adpcm_agm, adpcm_aica, adpcm_argo, adpcm_ct, adpcm_dtk, adpcm_ea, adpcm_ea_maxis_xa, adpcm_ea_r1, adpcm_ea_r2, adpcm_ea_r3, adpcm_ea_xas, g722, g726, g726le, adpcm_ima_acorn, adpcm_ima_amv, adpcm_ima_alp, adpcm_ima_apc, adpcm_ima_apm, adpcm_ima_cunning, adpcm_ima_dat4, adpcm_ima_dk3, adpcm_ima_dk4, adpcm_ima_ea_eacs, adpcm_ima_ea_sead, adpcm_ima_iss, adpcm_ima_moflex, adpcm_ima_mtf, adpcm_ima_oki, adpcm_ima_qt, adpcm_ima_rad, adpcm_ima_ssi, adpcm_ima_smjpeg, adpcm_ima_wav, adpcm_ima_ws, adpcm_ms, adpcm_mtaf, adpcm_psx, adpcm_sbpro_2, adpcm_sbpro_3, adpcm_sbpro_4, adpcm_swf, adpcm_thp, adpcm_thp_le, adpcm_vima, adpcm_xa, adpcm_xmd, adpcm_yamaha, adpcm_zork, anull

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