FIMS implementation

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: /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