Media Streaming Supported Source File Formats and Players

The ltmsServer object supports the following source files formats and players for each protocol.

Protocol Compatible Source Formats Compatible Players
Adobe Flash RTMP Containers Flash Player
• FLV (Flash Video) Adobe Air
• MP4 VideoLAN VLC player
• TS (MPEG-2 Transport) Other RTMP compatible players
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
Adobe HTTP Dynamic Streaming (HDS) Containers Flash Player with OSMF
• MP4
Video
• H.264
Audio
• AAC
• AAC Low Complexity (AAC LC)
• AAC High Efficiency (HE-AAC) v1 and v2
Apple HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) Containers iPhone, iPod, and iPad (iOS 3.0 or later)
• MP4 Quicktime player (10.0 or later)
• TS (MPEG-2 Transport) VideoLAN VLC player
Video Safari (4.0 or later on MAC OSX version 10.6)
• H.264 Google Chrome
Audio Roku streaming devices
• AAC Other HLS compatible players
• AAC Low Complexity (AAC LC)
• High Efficiency AAC (HE-AAC) v1
MPEG-DASH Containers Google Chrome with media extension (i.e dash.js)
• MP4 DASH AVC compatible players
Video
• H.264
Audio  
• AAC
• AAC Low Complexity (AAC LC)
• AAC High Efficiency (HE-AAC) v1 and v2
Microsoft Smooth Streaming (SSF) Containers Silverlight 3 or later
• MP4 Other Smooth Streaming compatible players
• ISM (Smooth Streaming)
Video
• H.264  
Audio
• AAC
• AAC Low Complexity (AAC LC)
• AAC High Efficiency (HE-AAC) v1 and v2
RTSP/RTP Containers LEAD RTSP Source
• FLV (Flash Video) Quicktime player
• MP4 VideoLAN VLC player
• TS (MPEG-2 Transport) 3GPP compatible mobile devices
Video Other RTSP/RTP compliant players
• H.264
• H.265
Audio
• AAC
• AAC Low Complexity (AAC LC)
• AAC High Efficiency (HE-AAC) v1 and v2
RTSP/RTP (MPEG-2 transport) Containers VideoLAN VLC player
• FLV (Flash Video) IPTV set-top boxes
• MP4 Other RTSP/RTP (MPEG-2 transport) compliant players
• TS (MPEG-2 Transport)
Video
• H.264
• H.265
Audio
• AAC  
• AAC Low Complexity (AAC LC)
• AAC High Efficiency (HE-AAC) v1 and v2
RTSP/RTP over HTTP Containers LEAD RTSP Source
• FLV (Flash Video) Quicktime player
• MP4 Other RTSP/RTP over HTTP compliant players
• TS (MPEG-2 Transport)
Video
• H.264
• H.265
Audio
• AAC
• AAC Low Complexity (AAC LC)  
• AAC High Efficiency (HE-AAC) v1 and v2
HTML5 Video * Containers Android Browser (2.3 or later)
• MP4 (H264 + AAC) Safari (3.1 or later)
• WebM (MKV) (VP8 + Vorbis) Internet Explorer (9.0 or later)
• Ogg (Theora + Vorbis) Opera (11.5 or later)
Video Firefox (3.5 or later)
• H.264 Google Chrome (3.0 or later)
• Theora
• VP8
Audio
• AAC Low Complexity (AAC LC)
• Vorbis

See Also

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