ContentsSupported File Types
This topic describes the various file types that are supported in AutoPlay Media Studio:
After careful consideration, Indigo Rose has decided not to support the MP3 audio format in this product. This decision was made to avoid the complicated and costly licensing that is involved with the patented format, both in AutoPlay Media Studio, and in the applications created with AutoPlay Media Studio. For more information about the licensing of the MP3 format, visit: http://www.mp3licensing.com.
For this reason, we recommend using the new compressed audio format Ogg Vorbis. Ogg Vorbis has been designed to completely replace proprietary, patented audio formats such as the MP3 format. Ogg Vorbis will also offer greater compression and sound quality than the MP3 format in most cases.
Ogg Vorbis (*.ogg) is an audio compression format developed by Xiph.org that is roughly comparable to other formats used to store and play digital music, such as MP3, VQF, AAC, and other digital audio formats. What’s different is that the Ogg Vorbis format is completely free, open, and unpatented.
You can find further information about the Ogg Vorbis
format and available conversion tools by visiting:
http://www.vorbis.com
http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis
The following audio formats are fully supported for playback in AutoPlay Media Studio:
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Filename Extension |
Format |
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.ogg |
Ogg Vorbis |
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.raw |
PCM signed raw audio |
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.aif, .aiff |
Audio Interchange File Format |
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.wav |
WAV |
Note: .wma and .asf audio formats use Windows Media Player, and may require a codec on the end user's system. Therefore Windows Media Player needs to be installed on the user's system. For example, if you are using a Windows Media Player 9 codec, the end user will need to have Windows Media Player 9 installed in order to play the track.
The following image formats are supported for backgrounds and image objects in AutoPlay Media Studio:
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Filename Extension |
Format |
Notes |
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.apm |
Aldus Placeable Metafile |
A desktop publishing image format. |
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.bmp |
Microsoft Bitmap |
An uncompressed file format, so it takes up lots of disk space. |
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.emf |
Windows Enhanced Metafile |
A Windows vector image format converted to bitmap. |
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.gif |
Graphic Interchange Format |
A 256 color image format. Animated GIFs are not supported. |
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.jpg |
Joint Photographic Experts Group |
Primarily used for photographs. |
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.pcd |
Photo-CD (Kodak) |
Designed to store multi-resolution images. |
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.pcx |
ZSoft Paintbrush |
Can store images in 24 bits and 8-bit or less. |
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.png |
Portable Network Graphics |
Decent at compression. Ability to store an alpha channel. |
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.psd |
Adobe Photoshop |
Professional image editing format. |
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.tga |
Truevision |
24-bit color image format. |
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.tif |
Aldus Corporation format TIFF |
A popular loss-less image format. |
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.wmf |
Windows Metafile |
Common in Windows 3.1, usage discouraged. |
The following video formats are supported for playback through the video object in AutoPlay Media Studio:
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Filename Extensions |
Format |
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.asf, .asx, .wax, .wmv, .wvx, .wmp, .wmx |
Windows Media |
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.avi |
Windows formats |
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.mpg, .mpeg, .m1v, .mpa, .mpe, .mpv2 |
Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) |
The following are some additional formats that can be viewed through objects in AutoPlay Media Studio:
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Filename Extension |
Object |
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.btn |
Button object |
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.htm |
Web object |
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.txt |
Paragraph object |
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.swf |
Flash object |