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YouTube's Supported File Formats
YouTube's Supported File Formats
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Written by Ben Keeling
Updated over a week ago

Accepted file formats for upload:

File format

File Extension

MOV (QuickTime Movie)

.MOV

MPEG-1 Video File

.MPEG-1

MPEG-2 Video File

.MPEG-2

MPEG-4 Video File (Native file_type used by Youtube)

.MPEG4

MP4 (MPEG-4 Part 14) Video File

.MP4

MPEG (Moving Picture Experts Group)

.MPG

AVI (Audio Video Interleave)

.AVI

WMV (Windows Media Video)

.WMV

MPEG-PS (MPEG Program Stream) Video File

.MPEGPS

FLV (Flash Video)

.FLV

3GPP Video File

3GPP

WebM Video File

.WebM

DNxHR Video File

.DNxHR

ProRes Video File

.ProRes

CineForm Video File

.CineForm

HEVC (H.265) Video File

.HEVC

Data Source:

Max accepted file size limit:

The max file size accepted by Youtube is currently 256GB

Data Source:

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