Video formats that work in Office 365 Video

Note: Office 365 Video will be replaced by Microsoft Stream. To learn more about the new enterprise video service that adds intelligence to video collaboration and learn about the transition plans for current Office 365 Video customers, see Migrate to Stream from Office 365 Video.

Office 365 Video is built on Azure Media Services. Therefore, Office 365 Video supports only the codecs and file formats that Azure Media Services supports. This article lists the video codecs, audio codecs, and video file formats that are compatible with 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.

Note: While all the above formats are supported, not all of them are accessible (for example, .wmv). Use the .mp4 format for the most accessible solution. 

See Also

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