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What video and audio codecs are recommended for video playback?

April 26, 2017audio codecs playback recommended video

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What video and audio codecs are recommended for video playback?

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CasparCG supports many codecs. When using the “FFmpeg Producer” we normally use QuickTime PNG (Best, Millions of Colors+) with premultiplied alpha channel and uncompressed 48 kHz stereo audio. There’s even templates for rendering from Adobe After Effects available. When using the “Flash Producer” we normally use either imported PNG sequences or FLV video with alpha channel. CasparCG uses FFmpeg for video playback, so everything that FFmpeg can decode can also be played by CasparCG. If you have shot video in a codec that is supported (such DV25, DVCPRO25 or DVCPRO50) you will be able to play it directly from disk/card. Otherwise you must first transcode to a supported codec.