What file formats can I upload to Stagevu?

Answer 1

Stagevu supports a wide variety of video formats. Most common, relatively modern video files should work fine. Here's a long long list.

Containers/Formats: These can be thought as the peanut shell that contains all the actual video content. They're often represented by different file extensions

1. AVI (.avi): Audio Video Interleave - a very old and established format; all your videos are encoded to this
2. MKV (.mkv): Matroska Video - a new format that can contain everything, mostly used for anime
3. MPEG-4 Part 14 (.mp4): Standard MPEG-4 file - good for newer video codecs
4. MPEG-2 (.mpeg): Standard MPEG-2 file - works with MPEG-2 and DVD video
5. FLV (.flv): Flash Video - used on other video sharing sites
6. ASF/WMV (.wmv): Advanced Systems Format - our encoders may be able to encode these, but no guarantees
7. RMVB (.rmvb): Realmedia - this might work, but it's proprietary, so no guarantees
8. Ogg (.ogm): Ogg Media - largely superseded by MKV, not recommended, but should work fine

Video codecs: The chocolate inside the shell, these represent the actual video (not audio) data

1. MPEG-4 Part 2 (DivX, XviD, libavcodec): this is the video codec we use
2. MPEG-4 Part 14 AVC (h.264: x264, Nero, Mainconcept, DivX 7): a newer and better codec, but requires more resources to decode and encode
3. MPEG-2 (TMPGenc): sort of old, but everywhere
4. VP6 (Flash): used for streaming online
5. WMV, VC-1, RealVideo, Ogg Theora: not recommended due to compatibility issues

Audio codecs: The sugar inside the container

1. MP3 (LAME, Fraunhofer): it's everywhere, and your videos' sound is encoded to it
2. AAC or MPEG-4 Audio (Nero, FAAC): it's better than MP3, but is not used as much; fully supported as well
3. Vorbis (Xiph, Tremor): a good and free audio format that's often used with Ogg
4. AC3: used in DVDs, among other things
5. RealAudio and WMA: not supported for same reasons as above
6. MP2: might work, but haven't tested; you're still using this old stuff?

Subtitles: Helps clarify things

1. Standard Vobsubs: we haven't tested this, so we would appreciate any word on whether these work
2. SSA/ASS: (Advanced) Substation Alpha - popular for anime fansubs; currently SSA/ASS softsubs work inside MKV containers