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This entry is a bit different from others, and may be moved to a blog post in the future. Below are a number of tables that enumerate the codecs Discord supports for local playback (not livestreaming). These tables are based on community testing across a number of platforms, and are not exhaustive.

Key

The key has a number of emojis corresponding to full support, partial support, support with the Discord embed workaround, and no support.

• ✅ Full support
• ⚠️ Partial support
• 🛠️ Support with the Discord embed workaround
• ❔ Untested or unknown
• ❌ No support

If the browser isn't compatible with a particular platform, it will be marked as N/A.

Video Codecs & Containers

H.264 4:2:0 8-bit lossy | .mp4

Browser	macOS	Windows	iOS	Android	Linux
Chrome	✅	✅	❔	❔	✅
Firefox	✅	✅	❔	❔	✅
Safari	✅	N/A	✅	N/A	N/A
App	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅

H.265 4:2:0 8-bit lossy | .mp4

Browser	macOS	Windows	iOS	Android	Linux
Chrome	✅	⚠️**	❔	❔	❌
Firefox	❌	⚠️***	❔	❔	❌
Safari	⚠️*	N/A	⚠️*	N/A	N/A
App	✅	⚠️**	⚠️*	✅	❌

* Only supports H.265 with the hvcC box in the MP4 container. These streams can be encoded by adding -tag:v hvc1 to an FFmpeg encoding command.

** Requires you have hardware accelerated HEVC decoding support.

*** Firefox on Windows requires you have hardware accelerated HEVC decoding support and the media.wmf.hevc.enabled flag enabled in about:config.

H.265 4:2:0 8-bit lossy | .mov

Browser	macOS	Windows	iOS	Android	Linux
Chrome	✅	⚠️**	❔	❔	❌
Firefox	❌	⚠️***	❔	❔	❌
Safari	⚠️*	N/A	⚠️*	N/A	N/A
App	✅	⚠️**	⚠️*	✅	❌

* Only supports H.265 with the hvcC box in the MOV container. These streams can be encoded by adding -tag:v hvc1 to an FFmpeg encoding command.

** Requires you have hardware accelerated HEVC decoding support.

*** Firefox on Windows requires you have hardware accelerated HEVC decoding support and the media.wmf.hevc.enabled flag enabled in about:config.

H.265 4:2:0 10-bit lossy | .mp4

Browser	macOS	Windows	iOS	Android	Linux
Chrome	✅	❌	❔	❔	❌
Firefox	❌	❌	❔	❔	❌
Safari	⚠️*	N/A	⚠️*	N/A	N/A
App	✅	❌	⚠️*	✅	❌

* Only supports H.265 with the hvcC box in the MP4 container. These streams can be encoded by adding -tag:v hvc1 to an FFmpeg encoding command.

H.265 4:2:0 10-bit lossy | .mov

Browser	macOS	Windows	iOS	Android	Linux
Chrome	✅	❌	❔	❔	❌
Firefox	❌	❌	❔	❔	❌
Safari	⚠️*	N/A	⚠️*	N/A	N/A
App	✅	❌	⚠️*	✅	❌

* Only supports H.265 with the hvcC box in the MOV container. These streams can be encoded by adding -tag:v hvc1 to an FFmpeg encoding command.