Supported Media File Formats¶
Supported Image Formats¶
Format |
Media processing backend |
Comments |
|---|---|---|
JPEG |
GD, ImageMagick, IMagick, GraphicsMagick, Gmagick |
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GIF |
GD, ImageMagick, IMagick, GraphicsMagick, Gmagick |
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TIFF |
ImageMagick, IMagick, GraphicsMagick, Gmagick |
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PNG |
GD, ImageMagick, IMagick, GraphicsMagick, Gmagick |
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TilePic |
GD, ImageMagick, IMagick, GraphicsMagick, Gmagick |
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Camera RAW |
ImageMagick, IMagick, GraphicsMagick, Gmagick |
Supports whatever manufacturer formats your installed version of ImageMagick can handle |
Photoshop PSD |
ImageMagick, IMagick, GraphicsMagick, Gmagick |
Derivatives for files with layer effects may not be rendered properly |
JPEG-2000 |
ImageMagick, IMagick, GraphicsMagick, Gmagick |
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DICOM |
ImageMagick, IMagick, GraphicsMagick, Gmagick |
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DPX |
ImageMagick, IMagick, GraphicsMagick, Gmagick |
Pixel values in non-Tilepic derivatives are adjusted for optimal viewing on computer monitors. |
OpenEXR |
ImageMagick, IMagick, GraphicsMagick, Gmagick |
More information on this format can be found here. |
QTVR (QuickTime VR) |
QuicktimeVR |
JPEG-format thumbnails are extracted; straight-QTVR is kept as “original” version. The QuicktimeVR plugin requires ffmpeg to be installed. |
Adobe DNG |
ImageMagick, IMagick, GraphicsMagick, Gmagick |
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BMP |
ImageMagick, IMagick, GraphicsMagick, Gmagick |
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HEIC |
ImageMagick, IMagick, Gmagick |
Available from version 1.8. Gmagick support requires working ImageMagick installation (GraphicsMagick does not support the HEIC format at all). All back-ends require ImageMagick to be built with support for libheic. This is not available by default in most Linux distributions. |
Supported Audio Formats¶
Format |
Media processing backend |
Comments |
|---|---|---|
MP3 |
ffmpeg |
ffmpeg must be compiled with libLAME |
AIFF |
ffmpeg |
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WAV |
ffmpeg |
Including Broadcast-WAVE |
AAC |
ffmpeg |
Requires ffmpeg to be compiled with libfdk_aac |
Ogg Vorbis |
ffmpeg |
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FLAC |
ffmpeg |
Supported Video Formats¶
Format |
Media processing backend |
Comments |
|---|---|---|
MPEG-2 |
ffmpeg |
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MPEG-4 |
ffmpeg |
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QuickTime |
ffmpeg |
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WindowsMedia |
ffmpeg |
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FLV |
ffmpeg |
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Ogg Theora |
ffmpeg |
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AVI |
ffmpeg |
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Matroska (mkv) |
ffmpeg |
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DV |
ffmpeg |
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MPEG-2 TS (MP2T) |
ffmpeg |
Supported Document Formats¶
Format |
Media processing backend |
Comments |
|---|---|---|
PDFWand |
CA can only generate thumbnail page images for display if Ghostscript is installed on your system. Can extract text from file for searchability if xPDF is installed. |
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PS (Postscript) |
PDFWand |
CA can only generate thumbnail page images for display if Ghostscript is installed on your system. |
Microsoft Word |
Office |
Both .doc (< 2007 file format) and .docx (XML-based format) are supported. Can generate page previews and extract text from file for searchability if LibreOffice is installed. |
Microsoft Powerpoint |
Office |
Can generate page previews if LibreOffice is installed. |
Microsoft Excel |
Office |
Can generate page previews if LibreOffice is installed. |
Supported Multimedia Formats¶
Format |
Media processing backend |
Comments |
|---|---|---|
STL |
Mesh |
Standard Tesselation Language for 3d models (geometry only; no textures). |
PLY |
Mesh |
Polygon File Format for 3d models (geometry only; no textures) |
OBJ |
Mesh |
Wavefront OBJ for 3d models. For CollectiveAccess version 1.7.x only geometry is supported. From version 1.8 support for textures specified using .mtl “sidecar” files is provided. |
GLTF |
Mesh |
Graphics Language Transport Format for 3d models. Available from version 1.8. Texture support is provided using “sidecar” files. |