Supported Media Formats

Types of Media Files Supported by Dolby.io

Dolby.io's Media APIs are designed for mono and stereo audio either in audio-only or audio+video file formats. The Transcode API supports additional streaming formats and and specific output formats.

Media APIs Input and Output Media Formats

The following Media APIs support the media formats in this table.

  • Analyze API
  • Analyze Speech API
  • Analyze Music API
  • Audio Diagnose API
  • Enhance API
NameDescription
AACAdvanced Audio Coding - .m4a .mp4 .3gp .m4b .aac
HE-AACHigh-Efficiency AAC V1, V2, LC - .m4a .mp4 .3gp .m4b .m4p .m4r .m4v .aac
AIFF IFFAudio Interchange File Format - .aif .aiff .aifc
AVIAudio Video Interleave - .avi
MOVQuickTime File Format - .mov .qt
MP3MPEG-1, MPEG-2 Audio Layer 3 - .mp3
MP4MPEG-4 - .mp4 .m4a .m4p .m4b .m4r .m4v
OPUS.opus
VORBIS.ogg
WAVWaveform Audio File Format - .wav

Music Mastering API Input and Output Media Formats

NameDescription
AACAdvanced Audio Coding - .m4a .mp4 .3gp .m4b .aac
AIFF IFFAudio Interchange File Format - .aif .aiff .aifc
FLACFree Lossless Audio Codec - .flac
MP3.mp3
OPUS.opus
VORBIS.ogg
WAVWaveform Audio File Format - .wav

Transcode API Output Media Formats

The Transcoding API has a few variations extending support to streaming formats as indicated in this table.

ContainersVideo CodecsAudio CodesImagesStreaming
AAC ADTS
MP3
MP4
OGG
WAV
H.264
H.265
VP8
VP9
AAC LC
HE-AAC v1
HE-AAC v2
MP3
Opus
PCM
Vorbis
JPG
PNG
HLS
DASH

Limitations

If we haven't met your expectations for supported media, use the contact us form and let us know and please share a sample media file with us if you can to review.

Supported File Duration Limits

The following table lists the upper and lower limits for file length. File durations outside of these limits will result in an error.

APIMinimum File SizeMaximum File Size
Enhance100 msN/A
Diagnose100 ms14,400 sec (240 min)
Analyze2 secN/A
Analyze Speech1 secN/A
Analyze Music1 secN/A
Transcode100 ms for audio-only files
500 ms for files that contain video (audio-video files and video-only files)
N/A
Music Mastering1 sec600 sec (10 min)