What video and audio formats does VidCaster accept?

VidCaster uses Zencoder for most video and audio transcoding.

As with most VidCaster components, we support multiple third-party encoding platforms. Contact support if you have specific project requirements.

Below is a full list from Zencoder's official list of supported codecs:

• 3ivx
• 4X Movie
• Alaris VideoGramPiX
• Alparysoft lossless codec
• American Laser Games MM Video
• AMV Video
• Apple QuickDraw
• ASUS V1
• ASUS V2
• ATI VCR-2
• ATI VCR1
• Auravision AURA
• Auravision Aura 2
• Autodesk Animator Flic video
• Autodesk RLE
• Avid Meridien Uncompressed
• AVImszh
• AVIzlib
• AVS (Audio Video Standard) video
• Beam Software VB
• Bethesda VID video
• Bink video
• Blackmagic 10-bit
• Broadway MPEG Capture Codec
• Brooktree 411 codec
• Brute Force & Ignorance
• CamStudio
• Camtasia Screen Codec
• Canopus HQ Codec
• Canopus Lossless Codec
• CD Graphics video
• Chinese AVS video (AVS1-P2, JiZhun profile)
• Cinepak
• Cirrus Logic AccuPak
• Creative Labs Video Blaster Webcam
• Creative YUV (CYUV)
• Delphine Software International CIN video
• Deluxe Paint Animation
• DivX ;-) (MPEG-4)
• DNxHD (VC3)
• DV (Digital Video)
• Feeble Files/ScummVM DXA
• FFmpeg video codec #1
• Flash Screen Video
• Flash Video (FLV) / Sorenson Spark / Sorenson H.263
• Forward Uncompressed Video Codec
• fox motion video
• FRAPS: Realtime Video Capture
• GeoVision Advanced MPEG-4
• GoToMeeting codec (v1 and v2)
• H.261
• H.263, H.263+
• H.264 / AVC / MPEG-4 AVC / MPEG-4 part 10
• HuffYUV
• I263
• IBM Ultimotion
• IBM UltiMotion
• id Quake II CIN video
• id RoQ video
• IFF ByteRun1
• IFF ILBM
• Independent JPEG Group's codec
• Infinite Video PSI_V
• Intel Indeo 2
• Intel Indeo 3
• Intel Indeo 4.1
• Intel Indeo 5
• Interplay C93
• Interplay MVE video
• Karl Morton's video codec
• Kega Game Video
• kensington webcam
• Lagarith Lossless Video Codec
• LCL (LossLess Codec Library) MSZH
• Lead CMW wavelet 2.0
• LOCO
• LZO compressed
• Microsoft RLE
• Microsoft Video 1
• Midivid 3
• Mimic
• Miro VideoXL
• MJPEG (Motion JPEG)
• Motion Pixels video
• Motion Wavelets
• Moyea Flash to Video Converter
• MPEG-1 video
• MPEG-2 video
• MPEG-4 part 2
• MPEG-4 part 2 (Microsoft variants 1-3)
• MPEG-PES
• MSS2
• MSU Screen Capture Lossless Codec
• Nintendo Gamecube THP video
• nokia eti camcorder eyecon
• NuppelVideo/RTJPEG
• On2 VP3
• On2 VP4
• On2 VP5
• On2 VP6
• On2 VP6A (with alpha channel)
• On2 VP7
• Power VideoWorks video
• ProRes 422
• Psygnosis YOP Video
• Q-team QPEG
• QPEG
• QuickTime 8BPS video
• QuickTime Animation (RLE) video
• QuickTime Graphics (SMC)
• QuickTime video (RPZA)
• RealVideo 1.0
• RealVideo 2.0
• RealVideo 3.0
• RealVideo 4.0
• RL2 video
• Schrödinger (Schroedinger), Dirac
• Sierra VMD video
• sif1 alpha4
• Smacker video
• SMPTE VC-1
• SMV2
• Snow
• SoftMedia ViVD V2 codec
• Sony Digital Video (DV)
• Sony PlayStation MDEC (Motion DECoder)
• Sorenson Vector Quantizer 1 / Sorenson Video 1 / SVQ1
• Sorenson Vector Quantizer 3 / Sorenson Video 3 / SVQ3
• SP4x
• SP5x
• Streambox ACT-L2
• SVQ3
• Telegeny VDTZ
• Theora
• Tiertex Limited SEQ video
• TrueMotion 1.0
• TrueMotion 2.0
• UCOD-ClearVideo
• VDOWave 3 advanced codec
• VDOWave codec
• Verint Video Manager
• Vianet Lsvx Video
• VMware Screen Codec / VMware Video
• VP8
• VQA (Vector Quantized Animation) video
• VSS Codec Light
• VSS Wavelet Video Codec
• WebTrain Communication lossless screen recorder
• wincam screen capture codec
• Windows Media Screen Codec 2
• Windows Media Video (WMV)
• Windows Media Video (VC-1) Advanced Profile
• Windows Media Video 7 (WMV 7, WMV1)
• Windows Media Video 8 (WMV 8, WMV2)
• Windows Media Video 9 (WMV 9, WMV3)
• Windows Media Video Adv
• Windows Screen Video
• Winnov Videum winx codec
• Winnov Videum wnv1 codec
• Winnov WNV1
• WorldConnect Wavelet Video
• XAN Video
• xfire video
• xiricam Veo PC Camera
• Xvid (MPEG-4)
• YUV
• zdsoft screen recorder
• Zip Motion Blocks Video