Supported Media Formats

Supported media (Video, Images, Streaming) formats

Images 

  • BMP, GIF, IFF, JPG/JPEG, PCD, PCX, PNG, Targa, Tiff and WMF. 
  • AnimGIFs are supported, but the color palette is only 256 colors. 
  • HTML5 animations will work as long as the web clip is not very large (1920x1080). 
  • Animated PNG is not supported. 
  • JPG and PNG are preferred but JPG must be in the RGB color space. Do not use CMYK. 
  • PNG is better for line drawings, text, or anything where exact pixel replication matters, or something else, like a very small image. 

 

Video 

  • MPEG 1 and 2, WMV and H.264 compression. 
  • MOV files are supported provided they have H.264 compression. 

 

Streaming Video                                                                                                                                 

 Players support playback of streams in the following formats: 

  • H.264: transport streams may be over RTSP/RTP – 30 frames/sec, 3-8 bits. 
  • MPEG-2: program streams and transport streams can be over RTSP/RTP. 
  • These streams may be live (“joined in progress”) or on demand and are either unicast or multicast.