SUPPORTED CODEC and FILE FORMATS
Please refer to Basic Concepts - Video Compression and File Wrappers for useful information about video standards.
We support all industry standard wrappers, you name it: MPG, M2P, AVI, F4V, MXF, MOV, XDCAM, MP4, TS, WMV, WAV, M4A, P2
We know every need, every workflow requires specific codecs, you name it: MPEG2, DV, DVCPRO, DVCPRO50, DVCPROHD, uncompressed, H.264, AVC, AVC-Intra, IMX, VC-1, PCM, AAC, WMA, DNxHD (SD/HD, different resolutions, frame rates, bit rates)
We are simply experts on hardware based H.264 encoding, Metus INGEST fully support Quick Sync, NVENC and JPEG2000 (Nvidia Pascal/Maxwell GPU only) as we constantly break the limitations on maximum encoder number/server ratio. Please get in touch with Metus for GPU hardware recommendations.
Please find supported output formats for Latest Metus INGEST version, and the video presets in detailed listing;
MPEG PS | MPEG TS | Microsoft AVI | MXF OP1a | P2 | AVID OP-Atom | MP4 | MOV | WebM | WM9 | Audio Only | FFV1 | |
| MPEG-1 | ✔ | ✔ | ||||||||||
| MPEG-2 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ||||||||
| DV | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ||||||||
| DVCPRO | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |||||||||
| D10 | ✔ | |||||||||||
| AS-10 | ✔ | |||||||||||
| DNxHD | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |||||||||
| AVC-Intra | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |||||||||
| XDCAM EX | ✔ | ✔ | ||||||||||
| XDCAM HD | ✔ | ✔ | ||||||||||
| XDCAM IMX | ✔ | ✔ | ||||||||||
| DNxHR | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |||||||||
| JFIF | ✔ | |||||||||||
| XAVC | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |||||||||
| JPEG2000 | ✔ | |||||||||||
| AVCHD | ✔ | |||||||||||
| H.264 AVC | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ||||||||
| H.264 INTEL QUICKSYNC | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |||||||||
| H.264 NVIDIA NVENC | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |||||||||
| H.264 NVIDIA NVENC AV1 | ✔ | |||||||||||
| H.265/HEVC NVIDIA | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |||||||||
| Apple ProRes 422/4444 | ✔ | |||||||||||
| QUICKTIME Default Codecs | ✔ | |||||||||||
| VP8/VP9 | ✔ | |||||||||||
| Uncompressed (YUY2, UYVY, RGB24, RGB32, NV12, YV12, V210) |
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| Windows Media | ✔ | |||||||||||
| AAC | ✔ | |||||||||||
| PCM | ✔ | |||||||||||
| WMA | ✔ | |||||||||||
| MKV(Matroska) | ✔ |
