Supported input formats

AWS Elemental MediaConvert supports inputs with the following containers and codecs.

Some containers and codecs have additional restrictions. For more information about the video container, video codec, or audio codec, choose its link in the following reference table, or see Supported containers and codecs reference tables.

Container	Supported video codecs	Supported audio codecs
3G2, 3GP	AVC (H.264) H.263 MPEG-4 Part 2	AAC AMR-NB AMR-WB
ASF, WMV (Advanced Systems Format)	VC-1	WMA WMA2 WMA Pro
AVI (Audio Video Interleave)	Canopus HQ DivX/Xvid DV/DVCPRO MJPEG Uncompressed	Dolby Digital (AC3) Dolby Digital Plus (EAC3) Dolby E MP3 MPEG Audio PCM
F4V, FLV (MPEG-4 Flash)	AVC (H.264) H.263	AAC
GIF	GIF	Not applicable
HLS (Apple HTTP Live Streaming) With MPEG-TS segments	AVC (H.264) HEVC (H.265) MPEG-2	AAC Dolby Digital (AC3) Dolby Digital Plus (EAC3)
IMF (Interoperable Master Format)	Apple ProRes JPEG 2000 (J2K)	PCM
Matroska	AVC (H.264) MPEG-2 MPEG-4 Part 2 VC-1	AAC Dolby Digital (AC3) Dolby Digital Plus (EAC3) Opus WMA WMA2 PCM FLAC
MOV (Apple QuickTime)	Apple ProRes AVC (H.264) AVC-Intra DivX/Xvid DV/DVCPRO H.261 H.262 H.263 HEVC (H.265) JPEG 2000 (J2K) MJPEG MPEG-2 MPEG-4 Part 2 QuickTime Animation (RLE) Uncompressed	AAC MP3 PCM
MP4 (MPEG-4)	AV1 AVC (H.264) AVC-Intra DivX/Xvid H.261 H.262 H.263 HEVC (H.265) JPEG 2000 (J2K) MPEG-2 MPEG-4 Part 2 VC-1 VP9 Uncompressed	AAC Dolby Digital (AC3) Dolby Digital Plus (EAC3) PCM WMA WMA2
MPEG-1 (MPEG-1 System Stream)	MPEG-1 MPEG-2	AAC AIFF Dolby Digital (AC3) Dolby Digital Plus (EAC3) MPEG Audio PCM
MPEG-PS (MPEG Program Stream)	MPEG-2	MPEG Audio
MPEG-TS (MPEG-2 Transport Stream)	AVC (H.264) HEVC (H.265) MPEG-2 VC-1	AAC AIFF Dolby Digital (AC3) Dolby Digital Plus (EAC3) Dolby E MPEG Audio PCM WMA WMA2
MXF (Material Exchange Format)	Apple ProRes AVC (H.264) AVC-Intra DV/DVCPRO DV25 DV50 DVCPro HD JPEG 2000 (J2K) MPEG-2 Panasonic P2 Sony XDCAM Sony XDCAM MPEG-4 Proxy VC-3 Uncompressed	AAC AIFF Dolby E MPEG Audio PCM
WebM	VP8 VP9	Opus Vorbis
No container	AVC (H.264) DV/DVCPRO HEVC (H.265) MPEG-1 MPEG-2	FLAC PCM

Supported audio-only workflow input formats

When you create audio-only outputs, MediaConvert supports audio-only inputs with the following containers and codecs.

Some containers and codecs have additional restrictions. For more information about the audio container or audio codec choose its link in the following reference table. Or see Supported containers and codecs reference tables.

Container	Supported audio Codecs
ASF, WMA, WMV (Advanced Systems Format)	WMA WMA2 WMA Pro
FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec)	FLAC
Matroska	FLAC Opus
MOV (Apple QuickTime)	PCM
MP3 (MPEG-1 Layer 3)	MP3
MP4 (MPEG-4)	AAC
MPEG-TS (MPEG-2 Transport Stream)	MPEG-2 PCM
OGG, OGA	FLAC Opus Vorbis
WAV	PCM
No container	AAC Dolby Digital (AC3) Dolby Digital Plus (EAC3) FLAC PCM