sympathy
adobe media core importer
premiere pro, after effects and media encoder do not open the formats listed below. sympathy opens them, in all three, and hands every other file back to the host untouched.
H.264mkv webm
HEVCmkv webm
Apple ProResmkv webm
AOM AV1mkv webm mp4
Google VP9mkv webm mp4
Google VP8mkv webm mp4
sympathy special
mastering, archival and rare codecs
special opens everything the free edition does and adds the formats below.
VVCmkv
Grass Valleyavi
QT Animationavi
Apple ProResavi
GoPro CineFormavi
FFVHuffavi mkv mov
Ut Videoavi mkv mov
HuffYUVavi mkv mov
MagicYUVavi mkv mov
Uncompressedavi mkv mov
DVmkv
H.264mxf
HEVCmxf
MJPEGmkv
PNGavi mkv
APVmp4 mov
FFV1mkv mov
MPEG-2avi mov
Panasonic AVCmxf
JPEG 2000mj2 mov
specifications
host
- releases 26.0 and later
- windows
extensions
- ivf, obu, mp4, m4v, mov, mkv, webm, avi, mj2, apv, mxf
- nothing outside this list is ever looked at
picture
- 16 bit delivery, 10 bit sources are not truncated
- colour range follows the target format
- hardware decode: nvdec, amf, qsv, chosen by probing a packet
credits
- ffmpeg, gopro