Supported containers and codecs

Media containers

• MP4 *note 1
• TS *note 2
• ADTS
• WEBM

note 1: For MP4 container, embedded audio tracks are not supported.
note 2: For TS container, only a single embedded audio track is supported.

Video codecs

• AVC / H.264
• HEVC / H.265 (NOTE: DRM content decoding supported only on Android devices)
• VP9
• AV1 (NOTE: Kodi v20 or above)

The hardware video decoding on DRM protected videos is available on Android devices with Widevine L1.

Dolby vision / HDR are supported but require suitable hardware.

On non-Android systems are supported codec profiles with 8 bit color depth, 10/12 bit color depth are supported from Kodi 21 or above.

Audio codecs

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

NOTE: There is no support for DRM encrypted audio streams.

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)