Accepted video formats

Before you make your video please make sure you are able to upload it onto our website using one of the following formats. We accept pretty much any format but please do check!

We recommend uploading files with a .mov or .mp4 extension for best results.

Media formats/containers

• 3g2 (3GP2 Format)

• 3gp (3GPP Format)

• ac3 (Raw AC3)

• aac (Advanced Audio Coding)

• aiff (Audio Interchange File Format

• amr (3GPP AMR format)

• asf (ASF Format)

• au (Sun AU Format)

• avi (AVI Format)

• dirac (Raw Dirac Format)

• dv (DV format)

• flav (Raw FLAC)

• flv (Flash Video)

• mkv (Matroska format)

• mov, mp4, m4a, 3gp, 3g2, mj2 (QuickTime/MPEG-4/Motion JPEG 2000 format)

• mp2 (MPEG audio layer 2)

• mp3 (MPEG audio layer 3)

• mpeg, mpg (MPEG format)

• ogg, OGG format

• wav, WAV format

• mts, AVCHD multiplexed video/audio stream

Video codecs

• Cinepak

• FLV (H.263/Spark and On2 VP6)

• H.261

• H.263

• H.264 / AVC / MPEG-4 AVC / MPEG-4 part 10

• MJPEG (Motion JPEG)

• MPEG-1

• MPEG-2

• MPEG-4 (part 2)

• On2 VP3

• On2 VP5

• On2 VP6

• RealVideo 1.0

• RealVideo 2.0

• Snow

• Theora

• WMV1 (Windows Media Video 7)

• WMV2 (Windows Media Video 8)

• WMV3 (Windows Media Video 9)

Audio codecs

• AAC

• ATSC A/52A (AC-3)

• ALAC (Apple Lossless Audio Codec)

• AMR (adaptive multi-band rate (narrow and wide-band))

• FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec)

• GSM

• MP2 (MPEG audio layer 2)

• MP3 (MPEG audio layer 3)

• Nellymoser (within the FLV format)

• PCM

• Vorbis

• Wavpack

• Windows Media Audio 1

• Windows Media Audio 2