Formats - bitcodin Video Encoding Service
Supported Formats & Devices
bitcodin supports a variety of input formats and some of the major ones a listed below. If your targeted input format is not listed, just try our service, the possibility is very high that it is supported. Anyway, if your format is not supported, we are continuously integrating new input formats based on requests of our customers.
Excerpt of Supported Input Formats
Video Codecs
Audio Codecs
Subtitles
Container & File Formats
Input Protocols
Video Codecs
| Codec | Supported |
| H.264 / AVC / MPEG-4 AVC / MPEG-4 part 10 | |
| MPEG-1 Video | |
| MPEG-2 Video | |
| MPEG-4 Video | |
| VP8 | |
| … | … |
Audio Codecs
| Codec | Supported |
| Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) | |
| AC3 | |
| MPEG-2 Audio Layer 3 (MP3) | |
| FLAC | |
| WAV | |
| … | … |
Subtitles
| Format | Supported |
| The Web Video Text Tracks Format (WebVTT) | |
| … | … |
Container & File Formats
| Format | Supported |
| MP4 | |
| MOV | |
| MKV Matroska | |
| AVI | |
| FLV | |
| MPEG-2 PS | |
| MPEG-2 TS | |
| MXF | |
| … | … |
Input Protocols
| Format | Supported |
| FTP | |
| SFTP | |
| HTTP | |
| HTTPs | |
| Amazon S3 | |
| Google Cloud Storage | |
| DropBox | |
| Apple HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) |
Output Formats – MPEG-DASH & Apple HLS – Two formats to rule them all!
bitcodin generates MPEG-DASH & Apple HLS streams that enable your content to be played back on all major devices with players that are compatible to the MPEG-DASH & Apple HLS standards. Additionally, our bitdash player supports both protocols and consists of a MPEG-DASH HTML5 and Flash implementation.
Device Coverage
Video Codecs
Audio Codecs
Subtitles
Container Formats
Streaming Protocols
Device Coverage
| Device | DASH HTML5 | DASH Flash | DASH Native | DASH Overall | Apple HLS |  |
| Chrome >= 30 | ||||||
| Chrome < 30 | ||||||
| Safari 8 | ||||||
| Safari < 8 | ||||||
| Firefox | ||||||
| IE 11 Windows 8 | ||||||
| IE <= 11 | ||||||
| HbbTV 1.5 | ||||||
| Samsung Smart TV 2012+ | ||||||
| LG Smart TV 2012+ | ||||||
| Sony TV 2012+ | ||||||
| Philips NetTV 4.1+ | ||||||
| ChromeCast | ||||||
| Android >= 4.0 with Chrome | ||||||
| Android >= 4.1 with ExoPlayer | ||||||
| Windows Phone 8 | ||||||
| iOS | ||||||
| Apple TV | ||||||
| Mac OS |
Video Codecs
| Codec | Supported |
| H.264 / AVC / MPEG-4 AVC / MPEG-4 part 10 |
Audio Codecs
| Codec | Supported |
| Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) |
Subtitles
| Format | Supported |
| The Web Video Text Tracks Format (WebVTT) |
Container Formats
| Format | Supported |
| MP4 | |
| MPEG-2 TS |
Streaming Protocols
| Format | Supported |
| MPEG-DASH | |
| Apple HTTP Live Streaming |