Yes, I know that the FAQ pretends to answer this, but it doesn't really. Instead it instructs you to build the project from source (and the build instructions are quite convoluted). That kind of defeats the entire point :)
Let's save everyone in the world the hassle of having to build yet another open-source project in order to find out whether it actually solves their problem. What codecs does Xuggler support?
Answer
The reason the FAQ doesn't answer this is that it constantly changes as we ship new versions, and keeping that list in the documentation up to date would take too long. But since you asked, as of April 4th's latest version, here's the list of codecs supported:
Codecs:
D..... = Decoding supported
.E.... = Encoding supported
..V... = Video codec
..A... = Audio codec
..S... = Subtitle codec
...S.. = Supports draw_horiz_band
....D. = Supports direct rendering method 1
.....T = Supports weird frame truncation
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D V D 4xm 4X Movie
D V D 8bps QuickTime 8BPS video
D A 8svx_exp 8SVX exponential
D A 8svx_fib 8SVX fibonacci
D V D FRWU Forward Uncompressed
EV a64multi Multicolor charset for Commodore 64
EV a64multi5 Multicolor charset for Commodore 64, extended with 5th color (colram)
DEA aac Advanced Audio Coding
D A aac_latm AAC LATM (Advanced Audio Codec LATM syntax)
D V D aasc Autodesk RLE
DEA ac3 ATSC A/52A (AC-3)
EA ac3_fixed ATSC A/52A (AC-3)
D A adpcm_4xm ADPCM 4X Movie
DEA adpcm_adx SEGA CRI ADX ADPCM
D A adpcm_ct ADPCM Creative Technology
D A adpcm_ea ADPCM Electronic Arts
D A adpcm_ea_maxis_xa ADPCM Electronic Arts Maxis CDROM XA
D A adpcm_ea_r1 ADPCM Electronic Arts R1
D A adpcm_ea_r2 ADPCM Electronic Arts R2
D A adpcm_ea_r3 ADPCM Electronic Arts R3
D A adpcm_ea_xas ADPCM Electronic Arts XAS
D A adpcm_ima_amv ADPCM IMA AMV
D A adpcm_ima_dk3 ADPCM IMA Duck DK3
D A adpcm_ima_dk4 ADPCM IMA Duck DK4
D A adpcm_ima_ea_eacs ADPCM IMA Electronic Arts EACS
D A adpcm_ima_ea_sead ADPCM IMA Electronic Arts SEAD
D A adpcm_ima_iss ADPCM IMA Funcom ISS
DEA adpcm_ima_qt ADPCM IMA QuickTime
D A adpcm_ima_smjpeg ADPCM IMA Loki SDL MJPEG
DEA adpcm_ima_wav ADPCM IMA WAV
D A adpcm_ima_ws ADPCM IMA Westwood
DEA adpcm_ms ADPCM Microsoft
D A adpcm_sbpro_2 ADPCM Sound Blaster Pro 2-bit
D A adpcm_sbpro_3 ADPCM Sound Blaster Pro 2.6-bit
D A adpcm_sbpro_4 ADPCM Sound Blaster Pro 4-bit
DEA adpcm_swf ADPCM Shockwave Flash
D A adpcm_thp ADPCM Nintendo Gamecube THP
D A adpcm_xa ADPCM CDROM XA
DEA adpcm_yamaha ADPCM Yamaha
DEA alac ALAC (Apple Lossless Audio Codec)
D A als MPEG-4 Audio Lossless Coding (ALS)
D A amrnb Adaptive Multi-Rate NarrowBand
D A amrwb Adaptive Multi-Rate WideBand
D V amv AMV Video
D V D anm Deluxe Paint Animation
D V D ansi ASCII/ANSI art
D A ape Monkey's Audio
DES ass Advanced SubStation Alpha subtitle
DEV D asv1 ASUS V1
DEV D asv2 ASUS V2
D A atrac1 Atrac 1 (Adaptive TRansform Acoustic Coding)
D A atrac3 Atrac 3 (Adaptive TRansform Acoustic Coding 3)
D V D aura Auravision AURA
D V D aura2 Auravision Aura 2
D V D avs AVS (Audio Video Standard) video
D V D bethsoftvid Bethesda VID video
D V D bfi Brute Force & Ignorance
D A binkaudio_dct Bink Audio (DCT)
D A binkaudio_rdft Bink Audio (RDFT)
D V binkvideo Bink video
DEV D bmp BMP image
D V D c93 Interplay C93
D V D camstudio CamStudio
D V D camtasia TechSmith Screen Capture Codec
D V D cavs Chinese AVS video (AVS1-P2, JiZhun profile)
D V D cdgraphics CD Graphics video
D V D cinepak Cinepak
D V D cljr Cirrus Logic AccuPak
D A cook COOK
D V D cyuv Creative YUV (CYUV)
D A dca DCA (DTS Coherent Acoustics)
D V D dfa Chronomaster DFA
DEV D dnxhd VC3/DNxHD
DEV dpx DPX image
D A dsicinaudio Delphine Software International CIN audio
D V D dsicinvideo Delphine Software International CIN video
DES dvbsub DVB subtitles
DES dvdsub DVD subtitles
DEV D dvvideo DV (Digital Video)
D V D dxa Feeble Files/ScummVM DXA
DEA eac3 ATSC A/52 E-AC-3
D V D eacmv Electronic Arts CMV video
D V D eamad Electronic Arts Madcow Video
D V D eatgq Electronic Arts TGQ video
D V eatgv Electronic Arts TGV video
D V D eatqi Electronic Arts TQI Video
D V D escape124 Escape 124
DEV D ffv1 FFmpeg video codec #1
DEVSD ffvhuff Huffyuv FFmpeg variant
DEA flac FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec)
DEV D flashsv Flash Screen Video
D V D flic Autodesk Animator Flic video
DEVSD flv Flash Video (FLV) / Sorenson Spark / Sorenson H.263
D V D fraps Fraps
DEA g722 G.722 ADPCM
DEA g726 G.726 ADPCM
DEV D gif GIF (Graphics Interchange Format)
D A gsm GSM
D A gsm_ms GSM Microsoft variant
DEV D h261 H.261
DEVSDT h263 H.263 / H.263-1996
D VSD h263i Intel H.263
EV h263p H.263+ / H.263-1998 / H.263 version 2
D V D h264 H.264 / AVC / MPEG-4 AVC / MPEG-4 part 10
D V D h264_vdpau H.264 / AVC / MPEG-4 AVC / MPEG-4 part 10 (VDPAU acceleration)
DEVSD huffyuv Huffyuv / HuffYUV
D V D idcinvideo id Quake II CIN video
D V D iff_byterun1 IFF ByteRun1
D V D iff_ilbm IFF ILBM
D A imc IMC (Intel Music Coder)
D V D indeo2 Intel Indeo 2
D V D indeo3 Intel Indeo 3
D V indeo5 Intel Indeo Video Interactive 5
D A interplay_dpcm DPCM Interplay
D V D interplayvideo Interplay MVE video
DEV D jpegls JPEG-LS
D V D jv Bitmap Brothers JV video
D V kgv1 Kega Game Video
D V D kmvc Karl Morton's video codec
D V D lagarith Lagarith lossless
DEA libgsm libgsm GSM
DEA libgsm_ms libgsm GSM Microsoft variant
DEV libschroedinger libschroedinger Dirac 2.2
D A libspeex libspeex Speex
EV libtheora libtheora Theora
EA libvorbis libvorbis Vorbis
DEV libvpx libvpx VP8
EV ljpeg Lossless JPEG
D V D loco LOCO
D A mace3 MACE (Macintosh Audio Compression/Expansion) 3:1
D A mace6 MACE (Macintosh Audio Compression/Expansion) 6:1
D V D mdec Sony PlayStation MDEC (Motion DECoder)
D V D mimic Mimic
DEV D mjpeg MJPEG (Motion JPEG)
D V D mjpegb Apple MJPEG-B
D A mlp MLP (Meridian Lossless Packing)
D V D mmvideo American Laser Games MM Video
D V D motionpixels Motion Pixels video
D A mp1 MP1 (MPEG audio layer 1)
D A mp1float MP1 (MPEG audio layer 1)
DEA mp2 MP2 (MPEG audio layer 2)
D A mp2float MP2 (MPEG audio layer 2)
D A mp3 MP3 (MPEG audio layer 3)
D A mp3adu ADU (Application Data Unit) MP3 (MPEG audio layer 3)
D A mp3adufloat ADU (Application Data Unit) MP3 (MPEG audio layer 3)
D A mp3float MP3 (MPEG audio layer 3)
D A mp3on4 MP3onMP4
D A mp3on4float MP3onMP4
D A mpc7 Musepack SV7
D A mpc8 Musepack SV8
DEVSDT mpeg1video MPEG-1 video
D V DT mpeg1video_vdpau MPEG-1 video (VDPAU acceleration)
DEVSDT mpeg2video MPEG-2 video
DEVSDT mpeg4 MPEG-4 part 2
D V DT mpeg4_vdpau MPEG-4 part 2 (VDPAU)
D VSDT mpegvideo MPEG-1 video
D V DT mpegvideo_vdpau MPEG-1/2 video (VDPAU acceleration)
D VSDT mpegvideo_xvmc MPEG-1/2 video XvMC (X-Video Motion Compensation)
DEVSD msmpeg4 MPEG-4 part 2 Microsoft variant version 3
D VSD msmpeg4v1 MPEG-4 part 2 Microsoft variant version 1
DEVSD msmpeg4v2 MPEG-4 part 2 Microsoft variant version 2
D V D msrle Microsoft RLE
D V D msvideo1 Microsoft Video 1
D V D mszh LCL (LossLess Codec Library) MSZH
D V D mxpeg Mobotix MxPEG video
DEA nellymoser Nellymoser Asao
D V D nuv NuppelVideo/RTJPEG
DEV D pam PAM (Portable AnyMap) image
DEV D pbm PBM (Portable BitMap) image
DEA pcm_alaw PCM A-law
D A pcm_bluray PCM signed 16|20|24-bit big-endian for Blu-ray media
D A pcm_dvd PCM signed 20|24-bit big-endian
DEA pcm_f32be PCM 32-bit floating point big-endian
DEA pcm_f32le PCM 32-bit floating point little-endian
DEA pcm_f64be PCM 64-bit floating point big-endian
DEA pcm_f64le PCM 64-bit floating point little-endian
D A pcm_lxf PCM signed 20-bit little-endian planar
DEA pcm_mulaw PCM mu-law
DEA pcm_s16be PCM signed 16-bit big-endian
DEA pcm_s16le PCM signed 16-bit little-endian
D A pcm_s16le_planar PCM 16-bit little-endian planar
DEA pcm_s24be PCM signed 24-bit big-endian
DEA pcm_s24daud PCM D-Cinema audio signed 24-bit
DEA pcm_s24le PCM signed 24-bit little-endian
DEA pcm_s32be PCM signed 32-bit big-endian
DEA pcm_s32le PCM signed 32-bit little-endian
DEA pcm_s8 PCM signed 8-bit
DEA pcm_u16be PCM unsigned 16-bit big-endian
DEA pcm_u16le PCM unsigned 16-bit little-endian
DEA pcm_u24be PCM unsigned 24-bit big-endian
DEA pcm_u24le PCM unsigned 24-bit little-endian
DEA pcm_u32be PCM unsigned 32-bit big-endian
DEA pcm_u32le PCM unsigned 32-bit little-endian
DEA pcm_u8 PCM unsigned 8-bit
DEA pcm_zork PCM Zork
DEV D pcx PC Paintbrush PCX image
DEV D pgm PGM (Portable GrayMap) image
DEV D pgmyuv PGMYUV (Portable GrayMap YUV) image
D S pgssub HDMV Presentation Graphic Stream subtitles
D V D pictor Pictor/PC Paint
DEV D png PNG image
DEV D ppm PPM (Portable PixelMap) image
D V D ptx V.Flash PTX image
D A qcelp QCELP / PureVoice
D A qdm2 QDesign Music Codec 2
D V D qdraw Apple QuickDraw
D V D qpeg Q-team QPEG
DEV D qtrle QuickTime Animation (RLE) video
D V D r10k AJA Kona 10-bit RGB Codec
D V D r210 Uncompressed RGB 10-bit
DEV rawvideo raw video
DEA real_144 RealAudio 1.0 (14.4K) encoder
D A real_288 RealAudio 2.0 (28.8K)
D V D rl2 RL2 video
DEA roq_dpcm id RoQ DPCM
DEV D roqvideo id RoQ video
D V D rpza QuickTime video (RPZA)
DEV D rv10 RealVideo 1.0
DEV D rv20 RealVideo 2.0
D V D rv30 RealVideo 3.0
D V D rv40 RealVideo 4.0
D A s302m SMPTE 302M
DEV sgi SGI image
D A shorten Shorten
D A sipr RealAudio SIPR / ACELP.NET
D A smackaud Smacker audio
D V D smackvid Smacker video
D V D smc QuickTime Graphics (SMC)
DEV D snow Snow
D A sol_dpcm DPCM Sol
D V D sp5x Sunplus JPEG (SP5X)
D S srt SubRip subtitle
D V D sunrast Sun Rasterfile image
DEV D svq1 Sorenson Vector Quantizer 1 / Sorenson Video 1 / SVQ1
D VSD svq3 Sorenson Vector Quantizer 3 / Sorenson Video 3 / SVQ3
DEV D targa Truevision Targa image
D VSD theora Theora
D V D thp Nintendo Gamecube THP video
D V D tiertexseqvideo Tiertex Limited SEQ video
DEV D tiff TIFF image
D V D tmv 8088flex TMV
D A truehd TrueHD
D V D truemotion1 Duck TrueMotion 1.0
D V D truemotion2 Duck TrueMotion 2.0
D A truespeech DSP Group TrueSpeech
D A tta True Audio (TTA)
D A twinvq VQF TwinVQ
D V D txd Renderware TXD (TeXture Dictionary) image
D V D ultimotion IBM UltiMotion
DEV D v210 Uncompressed 4:2:2 10-bit
D V D v210x Uncompressed 4:2:2 10-bit
D V vb Beam Software VB
D V D vc1 SMPTE VC-1
D V D vc1_vdpau SMPTE VC-1 VDPAU
D V D vcr1 ATI VCR1
D A vmdaudio Sierra VMD audio
D V D vmdvideo Sierra VMD video
D V D vmnc VMware Screen Codec / VMware Video
DEA vorbis Vorbis
D VSD vp3 On2 VP3
D V D vp5 On2 VP5
D V D vp6 On2 VP6
D V D vp6a On2 VP6 (Flash version, with alpha channel)
D V D vp6f On2 VP6 (Flash version)
D V D vp8 On2 VP8
D V D vqavideo Westwood Studios VQA (Vector Quantized Animation) video
D A wavpack WavPack
D A wmapro Windows Media Audio 9 Professional
DEA wmav1 Windows Media Audio 1
DEA wmav2 Windows Media Audio 2
D A wmavoice Windows Media Audio Voice
DEVSD wmv1 Windows Media Video 7
DEVSD wmv2 Windows Media Video 8
D V D wmv3 Windows Media Video 9
D V D wmv3_vdpau Windows Media Video 9 VDPAU
D V D wnv1 Winnov WNV1
D A ws_snd1 Westwood Audio (SND1)
D A xan_dpcm DPCM Xan
D V D xan_wc3 Wing Commander III / Xan
D V D xan_wc4 Wing Commander IV / Xxan
D V D xl Miro VideoXL
DES xsub DivX subtitles (XSUB)
D V yop Psygnosis YOP Video
DEV D zlib LCL (LossLess Codec Library) ZLIB
DEV D zmbv Zip Motion Blocks Video
Note, the names of encoders and decoders do not always match, so there are
several cases where the above table shows encoder only or decoder only entries
even though both encoding and decoding are supported. For example, the h263
decoder corresponds to the h263 and h263p encoders, for file formats it is even
worse.
And here's all the file formats:
File formats:
D. = Demuxing supported
.E = Muxing supported
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E 3g2 3GP2 format
E 3gp 3GP format
D 4xm 4X Technologies format
D IFF IFF format
D ISS Funcom ISS format
D MTV MTV format
DE RoQ raw id RoQ format
E a64 a64 - video for Commodore 64
D aac raw ADTS AAC
DE ac3 raw AC-3
E adts ADTS AAC
D aea MD STUDIO audio
DE aiff Audio IFF
DE alaw PCM A-law format
DE alsa ALSA audio output
DE amr 3GPP AMR file format
D anm Deluxe Paint Animation
D apc CRYO APC format
D ape Monkey's Audio
D applehttp Apple HTTP Live Streaming format
DE asf ASF format
E asf_stream ASF format
DE ass Advanced SubStation Alpha subtitle format
DE au SUN AU format
DE avi AVI format
E avm2 Flash 9 (AVM2) format
D avs AVS format
D bethsoftvid Bethesda Softworks VID format
D bfi Brute Force & Ignorance
D bink Bink
D c93 Interplay C93
D caf Apple Core Audio Format
DE cavsvideo raw Chinese AVS video
D cdg CD Graphics Format
E crc CRC testing format
DE daud D-Cinema audio format
D dfa Chronomaster DFA
DE dirac raw Dirac
DE dnxhd raw DNxHD (SMPTE VC-3)
D dsicin Delphine Software International CIN format
DE dts raw DTS
DE dv DV video format
D dv1394 DV1394 A/V grab
E dvd MPEG-2 PS format (DVD VOB)
D dxa DXA
D ea Electronic Arts Multimedia Format
D ea_cdata Electronic Arts cdata
DE eac3 raw E-AC-3
DE f32be PCM 32 bit floating-point big-endian format
DE f32le PCM 32 bit floating-point little-endian format
DE f64be PCM 64 bit floating-point big-endian format
DE f64le PCM 64 bit floating-point little-endian format
D fbdev Linux framebuffer
DE ffm FFM (FFserver live feed) format
DE ffmetadata FFmpeg metadata in text format
D film_cpk Sega FILM/CPK format
DE filmstrip Adobe Filmstrip
DE flac raw FLAC
D flic FLI/FLC/FLX animation format
DE flv FLV format
E framecrc framecrc testing format
E framemd5 Per-frame MD5 testing format
DE g722 raw G.722
E gif GIF Animation
D gsm raw GSM
DE gxf GXF format
DE h261 raw H.261
DE h263 raw H.263
DE h264 raw H.264 video format
D idcin id Cinematic format
DE image2 image2 sequence
DE image2pipe piped image2 sequence
D ingenient raw Ingenient MJPEG
D ipmovie Interplay MVE format
E ipod iPod H.264 MP4 format
D iv8 A format generated by IndigoVision 8000 video server
DE ivf On2 IVF
D jack JACK Audio Connection Kit
D jv Bitmap Brothers JV
D libdc1394 dc1394 v.2 A/V grab
D lmlm4 lmlm4 raw format
D lxf VR native stream format (LXF)
DE m4v raw MPEG-4 video format
E matroska Matroska file format
D matroska,webm Matroska/WebM file format
E md5 MD5 testing format
DE mjpeg raw MJPEG video
DE mlp raw MLP
D mm American Laser Games MM format
DE mmf Yamaha SMAF
E mov MOV format
D mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 QuickTime/MPEG-4/Motion JPEG 2000 format
E mp2 MPEG audio layer 2
DE mp3 MPEG audio layer 3
E mp4 MP4 format
D mpc Musepack
D mpc8 Musepack SV8
DE mpeg MPEG-1 System format
E mpeg1video raw MPEG-1 video
E mpeg2video raw MPEG-2 video
DE mpegts MPEG-2 transport stream format
D mpegtsraw MPEG-2 raw transport stream format
D mpegvideo raw MPEG video
E mpjpeg MIME multipart JPEG format
D msnwctcp MSN TCP Webcam stream
DE mulaw PCM mu-law format
D mvi Motion Pixels MVI format
DE mxf Material eXchange Format
E mxf_d10 Material eXchange Format, D-10 Mapping
D mxg MxPEG clip file format
D nc NC camera feed format
D nsv Nullsoft Streaming Video
E null raw null video format
DE nut NUT format
D nuv NuppelVideo format
DE ogg Ogg
D oma Sony OpenMG audio
DE oss Open Sound System playback
E psp PSP MP4 format
D psxstr Sony Playstation STR format
D pva TechnoTrend PVA file and stream format
D qcp QCP format
D r3d REDCODE R3D format
DE rawvideo raw video format
E rcv VC-1 test bitstream
D rl2 RL2 format
DE rm RealMedia format
D rpl RPL/ARMovie format
DE rso Lego Mindstorms RSO format
DE rtp RTP output format
DE rtsp RTSP output format
DE s16be PCM signed 16 bit big-endian format
DE s16le PCM signed 16 bit little-endian format
DE s24be PCM signed 24 bit big-endian format
DE s24le PCM signed 24 bit little-endian format
DE s32be PCM signed 32 bit big-endian format
DE s32le PCM signed 32 bit little-endian format
DE s8 PCM signed 8 bit format
DE sap SAP output format
D sdp SDP
D shn raw Shorten
D siff Beam Software SIFF
D smk Smacker video
D sol Sierra SOL format
DE sox SoX native format
DE spdif IEC 61937 (used on S/PDIF - IEC958)
DE srt SubRip subtitle format
E svcd MPEG-2 PS format (VOB)
DE swf Flash format
D thp THP
D tiertexseq Tiertex Limited SEQ format
D tmv 8088flex TMV
DE truehd raw TrueHD
D tta True Audio
D tty Tele-typewriter
D txd Renderware TeXture Dictionary
DE u16be PCM unsigned 16 bit big-endian format
DE u16le PCM unsigned 16 bit little-endian format
DE u24be PCM unsigned 24 bit big-endian format
DE u24le PCM unsigned 24 bit little-endian format
DE u32be PCM unsigned 32 bit big-endian format
DE u32le PCM unsigned 32 bit little-endian format
DE u8 PCM unsigned 8 bit format
D vc1 raw VC-1
D vc1test VC-1 test bitstream format
E vcd MPEG-1 System format (VCD)
D video4linux2 Video4Linux2 device grab
D vmd Sierra VMD format
E vob MPEG-2 PS format (VOB)
DE voc Creative Voice file format
D vqf Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) TwinVQ
D w64 Sony Wave64 format
DE wav WAV format
D wc3movie Wing Commander III movie format
E webm WebM file format
D wsaud Westwood Studios audio format
D wsvqa Westwood Studios VQA format
D wtv Windows Television (WTV)
D wv WavPack
D x11grab X11grab
D xa Maxis XA File Format
D xwma Microsoft xWMA
D yop Psygnosis YOP Format
DE yuv4mpegpipe YUV4MPEG pipe format