Media Streaming Supported Source File Formats and Players

Adobe Flash RTMP

Containers

• FLV (Flash Video)
• MP4
• TS (MPEG-2 Transport)

Video

• H.264
• On2 VP6
• Sorenson Spark
• Screen video and Screen video 2

Audio

• AAC, AAC Low Complexity (AAC LC), AAC High Efficiency (HE-AAC) v1 and v2
• MP3
• Speex
• Nellymoser Asao

Flash Player

Adobe Air

VideoLAN VLC player

Other RTMP compatible players

Apple HTTP Live Streaming (HLS)

Containers

• MP4
• TS (MPEG-2 Transport)

Video

• H.264

Audio

• AAC, AAC Low Complexity (AAC LC), High Efficiency AAC (HE-AAC) v1

iPhone, iPod, and iPad (iOS 3.0 or later)

Quicktime player (10.0 or later)

VideoLAN VLC player

Safari (4.0 or later on MAC OSX version 10.6)

Google Chrome

Roku streaming devices

Other HLS compatible players

Containers

• MP4
• ISM (Smooth Streaming)

Video

• H.264

Audio

• AAC, AAC Low Complexity (AAC LC), AAC High Efficiency (HE-AAC) v1 and v2

Silverlight 3 or later

Other Smooth Streaming compatible players

RTSP/RTP (MPEG-2 transport)

Containers

• FLV (Flash Video)
• MP4
• TS (MPEG-2 Transport)

Video

• H.264
• H.265

Audio

• AAC, AAC Low Complexity (AAC LC), AAC High Efficiency (HE-AAC) v1 and v2

VideoLAN VLC player

IPTV set-top boxes

Other RTSP/RTP (MPEG-2 transport) compliant players

HTML5 Video *

Containers

• MP4 (H264 + AAC)
• WebM (MKV) (VP8 + Vorbis)
• Ogg (Theora + Vorbis)

Video

• H.264
• Theora
• VP8

Audio

• AAC Low Complexity (AAC LC)
• Vorbis

Android Browser (2.3 or later)

Safari (3.1 or later)

Internet Explorer (9.0 or later)

Opera (11.5 or later)

Firefox (3.5 or later)

Google Chrome (3.0 or later)