- x : not worked
- o: worked (able to open in quicktime but need conversion)
- oo: worked well (preview worked but wrong aspect ratio)
- ooo: worked very well (preview worked, and aspect ratio’s right)
Size was measured by recording a static stream at 20fps over 6 seconds at a resolution of 640 x 360.
(Codecs are extracted from https://web.archive.org/web/20120722124832/http://opencv.willowgarage.com/wiki/QuickTimeCodecs )
| FourCC | OK | .mov |
.avi |
.mp4 |
.mkv |
Codec Name | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
3IV2 |
x | x | x | x | x | 3ivx D4 4.5.1 | Compresses an image into 3ivx D4 format. |
8BPS |
o | 81.1 |
N/A | N/A | N/A | Apple Planar RGB | Compresses images in the Planar RGB format. |
SVQ1 |
o | 1.7 |
N/A | N/A | N/A | Sorenson Video™ Compresavsor | Compresses video using the Sorenson Video™ V2.30.302 compressor from Sorenson™ Media, Inc. |
SVQ3 |
o | 2.3 |
N/A | N/A | N/A | Sorenson Video 3 Compressor | Compresses video using the Sorenson Video® 3 SE V 3.3.302 compressor from Sorenson® Media, Inc. |
WRLE |
o | 86.5 |
N/A | N/A | N/A | Apple BMP | Compresses images in the BMP format. |
XVID |
x | x | x | x | x | XviD | Decompresses video stored in XviD format. |
avc1 |
ooo | 1.4 |
1.6 |
1.5 |
1.6 |
H.264 Encoder | Compresses video to the H.264 format. |
cvid |
o | 3.2 |
3.3 |
3.3 |
3.3 |
Apple Cinepak | Compresses images using Apple Computer's Cinepak compression algorithm |
dv5n |
oo | 30.1 |
N/A | N/A | N/A | Apple DVCPRO50 - NTSC | Compresses an image to DVCPRO50 NTSC format. |
dv5p |
oo | 36.1 |
N/A | N/A | N/A | Apple DVCPRO50 - PAL | Compresses an image to DVCPRO50 PAL format. |
dvc |
oo | 14.8 |
15.1 |
15.1 |
15.1 |
Apple DV/DVCPRO - NTSC | Compresses an image to DV/DVCPRO NTSC format. |
dvcp |
oo | 16.7 |
N/A | N/A | N/A | Apple DV - PAL | Compresses an image to DV PAL format. |
dvpp |
oo | 18.1 |
N/A | N/A | N/A | Apple DVCPRO - PAL | Compresses an image to DVCPRO PAL format. |
h261 |
o^ | 2.4 |
2.5 |
2.5 |
2.5 |
Apple H.261 | Compresses images using H.261 compression algorithm |
h263 |
ooo^ | 1.4 |
1.6 |
1.6 |
1.5 |
H.263 | Compresses images using H.263 compression algorithm |
jpeg |
ooo | 3.2 |
3.3 |
3.3 |
3.2 |
Apple Photo - JPEG | Compresses images using the ISO standard baseline JPEG algorithm |
mjp2 |
o | 8.8 |
9.0 |
9.0 |
9.0 |
JPEG 2000 Encoder | Compresses images to the JPEG 2000 JP2 format. |
mjpa |
o | 4.2 |
N/A | N/A | N/A | Apple Motion JPEG A | Compresses images compressed using Motion JPEG Format A |
mjpb |
o | 4.2 |
N/A | N/A | N/A | Apple Motion JPEG B | Compresses images compressed using Motion JPEG Format B |
MJPG |
o | x | 7.2 |
x | x | Motion JPEG | Compresses images compressed using Motion JPEG |
mp4v |
ooo | 1.5 |
1.6 |
1.6 |
1.6 |
Apple MPEG4 Compressor | Compresses images using MPEG4 compression algorithm |
png |
o | 15.7 |
16.0 |
16.3 |
16.3 |
Apple PNG | Compresses images in the PNG format. |
pxlt |
o | 3.5 |
N/A | N/A | N/A | Apple Pixlet Video | Apple Pixlet Video Info |
raw |
ooo* | 116.2 |
116.2 |
116.2 |
116.2 |
Apple None | Stores images without any compression |
rle |
o | 32.3 |
31.8 |
31.9 |
N/A | Apple Animation | Compresses images using run length encoding |
rpza |
o | 6.7 |
7.0 |
6.9 |
6.9 |
Apple Video | Compresses images using Apple Computer's Video compression algorithm |
smc |
o | 10.6 |
10.6 |
10.6 |
N/A | Apple Graphics | Compresses images using Sean's secret recipe (optimal for 8-bit dithered images) |
tga |
o* | 109.7 |
113.1 |
113.1 |
N/A | Apple TGA | Compresses images stored into the TGA format. |
tiff |
o* | 104.3 |
116.4 |
116.4 |
117.3 |
Apple TIFF | Compresses images in the TIFF format. |
yuv2 |
o | 51.7 |
57.7 |
57.3 |
57.7 |
Apple Component Video - YUV422 | Compresses an image into YUV format. |
* preview did not work
^ codec forced reduced resolution (to 352 x 288)
Use 'mp4v' or 'avc1'
thank you!