List of supported files types

[otto0815]

Hello

i was surprised that vlc can play mpc (musepack)
and module (mod it xm s3m 669 ...) files

both are not listed on the feature list on the homepage

is there a complete list with all supported file types ?
on the vlc-wiki is a small list but the list is not complete

[DJ]

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/features.html
Supported Formats

[otto0815]

thx but this are "only" supported formats
i am looking for a list of supported files types


like i said i was surprised that vlc can play mpc and module files
becaus the file types are not on the homepage
may be even more people will use vlc when they see which files vlc can play

[DJ]

File types represent the container the format is associated with. VLC supports all the common containers that are open source and a list can be found when you install the player. This gives you the choice to associate a file type to VLC.

[otto0815]

i 've associate all audio files
but some like mpc and the mod formats are not available
i have to set them manually

flv too


so i was surprised that vlc supports them


i wonder if vlc can play sid (c64 music) files too....
edit: vlc cannot

[DJ]

FLV is new and experimental. I believe support will be added officially in 0.8.6

VLC 0.8.6 test 2 is showing good results. I'm not familiar with MPC or MOD??

[otto0815]

flv is working very good with the test version

only seeking isn't working
vlc stops playing the video when trying to seek


media player classic is able to seek flv
but it only plays audio from flv files and shows a white screen

but may be a look at media player classic source code and how it handle flv files will help to enable seeking



even if mpc (muspack) and the mod files are not on the feature list
vlc plays them without errors
vlc seems to support even more mod formats than modplug player or winamp or xmplay



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module_file
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOD_%28file_format%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musepack

[DJ]

MPC is seeking the audio because there is no Video. This is a known issue in VLC and hopefully it will be resolved before 0.8.6 final. Still at the moment it is better than 0.8.5 was for most users because it is recognizing the greater majority of FLV files.

[otto0815]

here are the mod formats modplug player supports

(mod, xm, it are the most popular formats)

# .669: UNIS 669, 669 Composer modules
# .AMF: Asylum / DSMI modules
# .AMS: Velvet Studio AMS 1.x modules
# .DBM: DigiBooster Pro modules
# .DSM: DSIK internal format modules
# .FAR: Farandole Composer modules (beta)
# .IT: Impulse Tracker modules
# .MED: OctaMed modules
# .MDL: DigiTracker 1.x modules
# .MOD: ProTracker modules (4-32 channels, 15/31 samples)
# .MOL: Module lists, compatible with MOD4WIN
# .MTM: MultiTracker modules
# .NST: NoiseTracker modules
# .OKT: OktaLyser modules
# .PTM: PolyTracker modules
# .S3M: ScreamTracker III modules
# .STM: ScreamTracker II modules
# .ULT: UltraTracker modules
# .UMX: Music files from Unreal Engine 1 games
# .WOW: Grave Composer modules
# .XM: FastTracker modules

on wikipedia is a server with about 300.000 mod files in all formats

i can make a test which mod formats vlc supports
and than i post the result here (hope its ok)

with all mod files araw is shown as codec

[otto0815]

ok here the result of the mod format test

supported # .669: UNIS 669, 669 Composer modules
supported # .AMF: Asylum / DSMI modules
supported #AMS: Velvet Studio AMS 1.x modules
supported # .DBM: DigiBooster Pro modules
unknown # .DSM: DSIK internal format modules
supported # .FAR: Farandole Composer modules (beta)
supported # .IT: Impulse Tracker modules
supported (but not all testet files are playable) # .MED: OctaMed modules
supported # .MDL: DigiTracker 1.x modules
supported # .MOD: ProTracker modules (4-32 channels, 15/31 samples)
supported # .MTM: MultiTracker modules
unknown # .NST: NoiseTracker modules
unknown # .OKT: OktaLyser modules
supported # .PTM: PolyTracker modules
supported # .S3M: ScreamTracker III modules
supported # .STM: ScreamTracker II modules
supported # .ULT: UltraTracker modules
supported # .UMX: Music files from Unreal Engine 1 games
unknown # .WOW: Grave Composer modules
supported # .XM: FastTracker modules

vlc plays all major mod file formats
but it doesn't show the "tag" and other info like channel number etc of the mod files)

channels are 2 shown
(is basically correct) mod files are normal stereo
but internal a mod file has 4 up to 128 (for med) channels)