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Video type parameters

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The <video> element allows UA capability-based fallback with multiple alternative video resources designated by multiple <source> elements. The UA is expected to pick the alternative it tries to play by comparing the information given in the type attribute against its knowledge about its own playback capabilities.

The main media type designates the container format. In general, it does not say anything about codecs needed to decode the streams packaged in the container. RFC 4281 defines a codecs MIME parameter for indicating which codecs are used within the container. The parameter takes a double-quoted comma-separated list of codec identifiers. For example, the MIME type for MPEG-4 Simple Profile Level 0 video and AMR audio in a 3GPP container (.3gp) is video/3gpp; codecs="mp4v.20.9,samr".

The following list is organized by container.

Ogg

MIME types: application/ogg (RFC 3534), audio/ogg, video/ogg (RFC 5334)

Filename extension: .ogg, .oga, .ogv

This is not the complete set of codecs from RFC 5334. See also http://wiki.xiph.org/index.php/MIMETypesCodecs

Video Codecs

  • Theora: theora
  • Dirac: dirac

Audio Codecs

  • Vorbis: vorbis
  • Speex: speex
  • FLAC: flac

Matroska

Main MIME type: video/x-matroska

Filename extension: .mkv

Video Codecs

  • Theora: unknown
  • Dirac: unknown

Audio Codecs

  • Vorbis: unknown

MPEG

MIME types: audio/mpeg (RFC 3003), video/mpeg (RFC 2046)

Filename extension: .mp1, .mp2, .mp3, .mpg, .mpeg

There are no registered codecs parameters.

MPEG-4

Main MIME type: video/mp4 (RFC 4337)

Filename extension: .mp4

Video Codecs

  • H.264 Baseline: avc1.42E0xx, where xx is the AVC level
  • H.264 Main: avc1.4D40xx, where xx is the AVC level
  • H.264 High: avc1.6400xx, where xx is the AVC level
  • MPEG-4 Visual Simple Profile Level 0: mp4v.20.9
  • MPEG-4 Visual Advanced Simple Profile Level 0: mp4v.20.240

Audio Codecs

  • Low-Complexity AAC: mp4a.40.2

3GPP

Main MIME type: video/3gpp (RFC 3839)

Filename extension: .3gp

Video Codecs

  • MPEG-4 Visual Simple Profile Level 0: mp4v.20.9

Audio Codecs

  • Low-Complexity AAC: mp4a.40.2
  • AMR: samr

ASF

Main MIME type: video/x-ms-wmv

Filename extension: .wmv

Video Codecs

  • Windows Media Video 8 (4CC: WMV2): unknown
  • Windows Media Video 9 / VC-1 Main (4CC: WMV3): unknown
  • Windows Media Video 9 Advanced / VC-1 Advanced (4CC: WVC1): unknown

Audio Codecs

  • Windows Media Audio 2: unknown
  • Windows Media Audio 10 Professional: unknown

Real Media

Main MIME type: application/vnd.rn-realmedia

Filename extension: .rm

Is this single-vendor format even relevant here?

WAVE

Main MIME type: audio/x-wav

Filename extension: .wav

RFC 2361 lists parameters to be used on the form audio/vnd.wave;codec=x. These are also used for the codecs parameter.

Browser Support

The table below lists the results of canPlayType(type) for different browsers. It does not necessary relate to what the browsers actually can play.

Note: The spec has replaced "no" with "", but no implementations have updated to reflect this yet.


MIME Firefox 3.5 Safari 4 Chrome 3
application/ogg maybe no no
application/ogg; codecs=bogus no no no
application/mp4 no no no
application/mp4; codecs=bogus no no no
application/octet-stream no no no
audio/3gpp no no no
audio/3gpp2 no no no
audio/aac no probably no
audio/x-aac no probably no
audio/aiff no probably no
audio/x-aiff no probably no
audio/ac3 no probably no
audio/x-ac3 no probably no
audio/basic no probably no
audio/flac no no no
audio/x-flac no no no
audio/mid no probably no
audio/midi no probably no
audio/x-midi no probably no
audio/mpeg no probably probably
audio/x-mpeg no probably no
audio/mpegurl no probably no
audio/x-mpegurl no probably no
audio/mp4 no probably probably
audio/mp4; codecs=bogus no maybe probably
audio/ogg maybe no probably
audio/ogg; codecs=bogus no no probably
audio/wav maybe probably no
audio/wav; codecs=0 maybe maybe no
audio/wav; codecs=1 probably maybe no
audio/wav; codecs=2 no maybe no
audio/wave maybe no no
audio/wave; codecs=0 maybe no no
audio/wave; codecs=1 probably no no
audio/wave; codecs=2 no no no
audio/x-wav maybe probably no
audio/x-wav; codecs=0 maybe maybe no
audio/x-wav; codecs=1 probably maybe no
audio/x-wav; codecs=2 no maybe no
audio/x-pn-wav maybe no no
audio/x-pn-wav; codecs=0 maybe no no
audio/x-pn-wav; codecs=1 probably no no
audio/x-pn-wav; codecs=2 no no no
video/3gpp no probably no
video/3gpp2 no probably no
video/avi no probably no
video/mpeg no probably probably
video/x-mpeg no probably no
video/mp4 no probably probably
video/mp4; codecs=bogus no maybe probably
video/msvideo no probably no
video/x-msvideo no probably no
video/quicktime no probably no
video/ogg maybe no probably
video/ogg; codecs=bogus no no probably
video/mp4; codecs="avc1.42E01E, mp4a.40.2" no maybe probably
video/mp4; codecs="avc1.58A01E, mp4a.40.2" no maybe probably
video/mp4; codecs="avc1.4D401E, mp4a.40.2" no maybe probably
video/mp4; codecs="avc1.64001E, mp4a.40.2" no maybe probably
video/mp4; codecs="mp4v.20.8, mp4a.40.2" no maybe probably
video/mp4; codecs="mp4v.20.240, mp4a.40.2" no maybe probably
video/3gpp; codecs="mp4v.20.8, samr" no maybe no
video/ogg; codecs="theora, vorbis" probably no probably
video/ogg; codecs="theora, speex" no no probably
audio/ogg; codecs=vorbis probably no probably
audio/ogg; codecs=speex no no probably
audio/ogg; codecs=flac no no probably
video/ogg; codecs="dirac, vorbis" no no probably
video/x-matroska; codecs="theora, vorbis" no no no

MIME types used in the wild (in type="")

MIME type defaults in Web servers