Video formats that work in Office 365 Video
NOTE For the most up-to-date information about supported codecs and file formats, see Formats supported by the Media Services Encoder.
Supported video codecs
Office 365 Video supports the following video codecs:
- H.264 (Baseline, Main, and High Profiles)
- MPEG-1 (Including MPEG-PS)
- MPEG-2 (Simple and Main Profile)
- MPEG-4 v2 (Simple Visual Profile and Advanced Simple Profile)
- VC-1 (Simple, Main, and Advanced Profiles)
- Windows Media Video (Simple, Main, and Advanced Profiles)
- DV (DVC, DVHD, DVSD, DVSL)
- Grass Valley HQ/HQX
Supported audio codecs
Office 365 Video supports the following audio codecs:
- AC-3 (Dolby Digital audio)
- AAC (AAC-LC, HE-AAC v1 with AAC-LC core, and HE-AAC v2 with AAC-LC core)
- MP3
- Windows Media Audio (Windows Media Audio Standard, Windows Media Audio Professional, and Windows Media Audio Lossless)
Supported video file formats
Office 365 Video supports the following video file formats:
Video file format | Video file extension |
3GPP, 3GPP2 | .3gp, .3g2, .3gp2 |
Advanced Systems Format (ASF) | .asf |
Advanced Video Coding High Definition (AVCHD) [MPEG-2 Transport Stream] | .mts, .m2ts |
Audio-Video Interleaved (AVI) | .avi |
Digital camcorder MPEG-2 (MOD) | .mod |
DVD transport stream (TS) file | .ts |
DVD video object (VOB) file | .vob |
Expression Encoder Screen Capture Codec file | .xesc |
MP4 | .mp4 |
MPEG-1 System Stream | .mpeg, .mpg |
MPEG-2 video file | .m2v |
Smooth Streaming File Format (PIFF 1.3) | .ismv |
Windows Media Video (WMV) | .wmv |
Some uncompressed video file formats are also supported. For more information, see Supported uncompressed video formats
Applies To: Office 365 End User, SharePoint Online, SharePoint Admin center