Features
Codecs
Audio
- Advanced Audio Coding (AAC / MPEG-2 Part 7 / MPEG-4 Part 3)
- MPEG-1 Audio Layer 1, 2, 3 (MP3)
- MPEG-2 Audio Layer 1, 2, 3 (MPEG-2 Part 3)
- Vorbis Audio
- Opus Audio
- G.711 · A-Law Audio · μ-Law Audio · PCM
- G.726 Speech Audio · ADPCM
- Dolby Digital Audio (AC-3) 1)
- Windows Media Audio 2)
- PCM Audio · LPCM Audio
1) Decoding only
2) Windows only
Video
- H.265 / HEVC / MPEG-H Part 2 1) 3)
- H.264 / AVC / MPEG-4 Part 10
- VP9
- VP8
- MPEG-4 Part 2
- H.263
- H.262 / MPEG-2 Part 2
- H.261
- VC-1
- MJPEG 2)
- Windows Media Video 2) 3)
1) Only on NVIDIA Maxwell Gen. 2 GPUs and newer
2) Decoding only
3) Windows only
Transforms
Audio
- Audio Resampling
- Mono Audio to Stereo Audio
- Multi-channel Audio to Stereo Audio
- Stereo Audio to Mono Audio
- Change Audio Bitrate
Video
- Image Overlay
- Crop Video
- Resize Video
- De-interlace Video
- Change Video Frame Rate
- Change Video Bitrate
File Formats / Containers / Systems
- MP4 · MP4 FastStart
- WebM / Matroska
- Duck IVF (VP8 and VP9)
- MPEG-2 TS
- MPEG-2 PS
- MPEG-1
- AVI 1)
- WMV · WMA · ASF 1) 2)
- WAV
1) Reading only
2) Windows only
Device Presets
- Apple TV · HTTP Live Streaming
- iPad · iPhone · iPod Touch · iPod Classic
- Android H.264 · Android WebM
- Blu-ray Disc Audio / Video (BDAV)
- DVD NTSC · DVD PAL
- DVD NTSC · DVD PAL
- Audio CD
Supported Platforms
macOS
- 64Bit · Dynamic Libraries · Unicode
- C++ · Objective-C++
- Xcode 26 · 16 · 15
- macOS 15 (Sequoia) · macOS 14 (Sonoma) · macOS 13 (Ventura) · Intel Only
Linux
- 64Bit · Shared Libraries · Unicode
- C++
- GCC 9+
- Ubuntu 24.04 LTS · 22.04 LTS · 20.04 LTS
Windows
- 64Bit · Dynamic Libraries · Unicode
- C++ · .NET 10 · .NET 4.8 (CLR 4)
- Visual Studio 2026 · 2022 · 2019
- Windows 11 · Windows 10
- Windows Server 2025 · Windows Server 2022 · Windows Server 2019