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Stefano Gottardo edited this page Sep 17, 2022 · 22 revisions

Media containers

MP4, TS, WEBM

Video codecs

  • AVC (H.264)
  • HEVC (H.265)
  • VP9 (H.265)
  • AV1 (NOTE: Available from Kodi v20, currently tested with unencrypted streams only)

The hardware video decoding on DRM protected videos is available on Widevine L1 certified devices. Dolby vision / HDR are supported but require suitable hardware.

Audio codecs

  • MP4A
  • AAC
  • AC-3
  • E-AC3 (EC-3)
  • DCA (DTS)
  • OPUS
  • VORBIS

Subtitles codecs

  • TTML - Timed Text Markup Language *note 1
  • WebVTT - Web Video Text Tracks as text format type (https://www.w3.org/TR/webvtt1/) *note 2
  • WebVTT - Web Video Text Tracks as "MP4" (ISO/IEC 14496-30:2014) format type *note 2
  • DVB - Digital Video Broadcasting subtitle stream (MPEG-2 Transport Stream, TS-MPEG)

note 1: Support limited to text only, and does not guarantee correct display.

note 2: The full support has been added on Kodi 20. (Kodi versions prior to v20 still use a dummy parser limited to text only, and does not guarantee correct display of subtitles)

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