Video file formats
Contenta products support several video file formats.
In the following table, read the column headers as follows.
- Object type refers to the Contenta S1000D Object Type
- CaS refers to Contenta S1000D 5.11
- AE refers to Arbortext Editor 8.x
- OXA refers to Oxygen XML Author 23.x
- LCS refers to LiveContent S1000D 5.11
- XPP refers to XML Professional Publisher 9.1 and later
| File extension | Object type | CaS | AE | OXA | LCS | XPP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| avi | AVI | yes | maybe (1) | maybe (6) | yes (2) | n/a |
| mov | MOV | yes | maybe (1) | maybe (6) | yes (2) | n/a |
| mp4 | MP4 | yes | maybe (1) | maybe (6) | yes (3) | n/a |
| ogv | n/a | no | no | no | yes (4) | n/a |
| rm, ram | RM | yes | maybe (1) | maybe (6) | yes (2) | n/a |
| webm | n/a | no | no | no | yes (4, 5) | n/a |
| wmv | WMV | yes | maybe (1) | maybe (6) | yes (2) | n/a |
- Arbortext Editor can be configured if a plug-in (ActiveX viewer) is available.
- Requires an external viewer (plug-in).
- Supported natively with HTML5 by all major browsers.
- Supported natively with HTML5 by Mozilla Firefox and recent versions of Microsoft Edge.
- Supported by Microsoft Internet Explorer only with a manually installed codec.
- Requires an Oxygen add-in.