DirectShow Input File Formats

The LEADTOOLS Multimedia toolkit reads the following file formats:

• AVI
• DVD (.ifo, .vob) (requires a DVD-compatible video decoder. (For more information, refer to VOB Files.)
• Mpeg1 Layer 3 Audio (MP3)
• MPEG1
• MPEG2 (requires an MPEG2-compatible video decoder such as LEAD MPEG2 Decoder )
• Ogg
• QuickTime
• WAV
• Windows Media Formats (WMA, WMV)
• DICOM
• ISO (MP4, AAC, AVC)
• Flash (FLV, F4V)
• Still Images
• Matroska (MKV)
• WebM
• MXF
• DVR file types (.LBL, .LRC)
• SRT (Secondary format for holding subtitles as text and timing data extracted from a video stream which is associated with that stream). For more information, see SetClosedCaptioningTargetFile.
• LTESC (LEADTOOLS Elementary Stream Catalog) is used as an index file and contains XML which represents all information necessary to merge all split files back together when doing distributed transcoding.

For a summary of output file formats, see:

Multimedia Output File Formats

For a complete listing of constants for supported format and media types, refer to: Format Types, Media Types and Media Subtypes