Vidispine implements the FIMS 1.0.7 Transform specification. Apart from the mandatory features, Vidispine also supports the following optional features:

  • Notifications - Vidispine will send HTTP callbacks for events such as job success and job failure.

  • Job priorities - Jobs can be assigned one of five priorities.

The services are available at the following location: http://localhost:8080/FIMS/TransformMediaService

Codecs and formats

Vidispine currently supports a subset of the container formats and codecs defined by EBU. For a full list of formats, see:

Container formats

The following container formats are supported in Vidispine.

ID

Name

7.1.2, 7.2.2.2

MP4

7.2.3

DV

7.2.4

AVI

7.2.11

MOV

7.2.19

MKV

7.2.15

FLV

7.2.7, 7.2.8

ASF/WMV

7.3.1, 7.3.1.3

JPG

7.3.8

PNG

Video codecs

The following video codecs are supported in Vidispine.

ID

Name

2

MPEG-2

5

MJPEG

6

JPG

9

H264

10

VC-1

20

DVVIDEO

28

VP8

Audio codecs

The following audio codecs are supported in Vidispine.

ID

Name

7.3, 8.4

MP3

7.2

MP2

8

AAC

11

PCM_S16LE

19

WMAv1