Supported Image and Document File Formats

Media Server can ingest all standard image formats:

  • TIFF
  • JPEG
  • JPEG 2000
  • PNG
  • GIF (Media Server only ingests the first frame of an animated GIF, unless you ingest the file as a video)
  • BMP (compressed BMP files are not supported) and ICO
  • PBM, PGM, and PPM
  • WebP
  • HEIF (High Efficiency Image File format), including:

    • AVCI (an H.264/AVC-encoded image stored inside an HEIF container)
    • AVIF (an AV1-encoded image stored inside an HEIF container)
    • HEIC (an H.265/HEVC-encoded image stored inside an HEIF container)
    • HEIF (containing an image with JPEG or JPEG 2000 compression)

Media Server uses File Content Extraction to support the following document formats:

  • Adobe PDF
  • Microsoft Word Document (.DOC and .DOCX)
  • Microsoft Excel Sheet (.XLS and .XLSX)
  • Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation (.PPT and .PPTX)
  • OpenDocument Text (.ODT)
  • OpenDocument Spreadsheet (.ODS)
  • OpenDocument Presentation (.ODP)
  • Rich Text (RTF)