Supported Media File Formats
From CollectiveAccess Documentation
[Valid for v1.3]
Supported media file formats
CollectiveAccess can accept the following media formats as representations of objects (formats in italics are planned for Providence but not yet implemented):
| Format | Media processing backend | Comments | |
| Image | |||
| JPEG | GD, ImageMagick, IMagick, GraphicsMagick, Gmagick, CoreImage | ||
| GIF | GD, ImageMagick, IMagick, GraphicsMagick, Gmagick, CoreImage | ||
| TIFF | ImageMagick, IMagick, GraphicsMagick, Gmagick, CoreImage | ||
| PNG | GD, ImageMagick, IMagick, GraphicsMagick, Gmagick, CoreImage | ||
| TilePic | GD, ImageMagick, IMagick, GraphicsMagick, Gmagick, CoreImage | ||
| Camera RAW | ImageMagick, IMagick, GraphicsMagick, Gmagick | Supports whatever manufacturer formats your installed version of ImageMagick can handle | |
| Photoshop PSD | ImageMagick, IMagick, GraphicsMagick, Gmagick, CoreImage | Derivatives for files with layer effects may not be rendered properly | |
| JPEG-2000 | ImageMagick, IMagick, GraphicsMagick, Gmagick, CoreImage | ||
| DICOM | ImageMagick, IMagick, GraphicsMagick, Gmagick, CoreImage | ||
| DPX | ImageMagick, IMagick, GraphicsMagick, Gmagick | Pixel values in non-Tilepic derivatives are adjusted for optimal viewing on computer monitors. More information on this format and its logarithmic pixel values can be found here | |
| OpenEXR | ImageMagick, IMagick, GraphicsMagick, Gmagick | More information on this format can be found here | |
| QTVR (QuickTime VR) | QuicktimeVR | JPEG-format thumbnails are extracted; straight-QTVR is kept as "original" version. The QuicktimeVR plugin requires ffmpeg to be installed. | |
| Adobe DNG | ImageMagick, IMagick, GraphicsMagick, Gmagick | ||
| Audio | |||
| MP3 | ffmpeg | ffmpeg must be compiled with libLAME | |
| AIFF | ffmpeg | ||
| WAV | ffmpeg | Including Broadcast-WAVE | |
| AAC | ffmpeg | Requires ffmpeg to be compiled with libfaac | |
| Ogg Vorbis | ffmpeg | ||
| Video | |||
| MPEG-2 | ffmpeg | ||
| MPEG-4 | ffmpeg | ||
| QuickTime | ffmpeg | ||
| WindowsMedia | ffmpeg | ||
| RealMedia | ffmpeg | ||
| FLV | ffmpeg | ||
| Ogg Theora | ffmpeg | ||
| AVI | ffmpeg | ffmpeg | |
| xvid | ffmpeg | Planned | |
| Documents | |||
| pdflib (optional); xPDF (optional) | PDFLib-Lite and the PDFLib PECL module will improve processing performance; CA will automatically use PDFLibLite if available. Otherwise the built-in (no installation necessary) Zend_PDF library will be used. CA can only generate thumbnail page images for display if Ghostscript is installed on your system. Can extract text from file for searchability if xPDF is installed. | ||
| Microsoft Word | AbiWord (optional); Libre Office (optional) | Both .doc (< 2007 file format) and .docx (XML-based format) are supported. Can extract text from file for searchability if AbiWord is installed. Can generate page previews if LibreOffice is installed. | |
| Microsoft Powerpoint | Libre Office (optional) | As of version 1.2 XML-based format is supported. Can generate page previews if LibreOffice is installed. | |
| Microsoft Excel | Libre Office (optional) | As of version 1.2 XML-based format is supported. Can generate page previews if LibreOffice is installed. | |
| Adobe InDesign | - | Planned for 2013? | |
| Multimedia | |||
| SWF (Flash) | - | Only compiled SWF files are supported (the files actually deployed to the web), not FLA files which are an Adobe-proprietary format. | |
| 3D | |||
| STL | mesh | Standard Tesselation Language | |
| PLY | mesh | Polygon File Format | |
