Video format

GZDoom supports the following video formats for the purpose of playing cutscene videos through MAPINFO or the ScreenJob ZScript API.

• IVF; A container file format for raw VP8 video. Using this format will require providing audio separately with one of GZDooms' supported sound formats. Usually by just providing your videos' audio into an OGG file that has the same name as the video, and is in the same directory. FFmpeg is an open-source command-line tool that can be used to convert most other video formats into video-only ivf files:

 ffmpeg -i <INPUT_VIDEO_FILENAME> -vcodec vp8 -an -f ivf output_file.ivf

• SMK; A video format primarily used for video games, only supports 8-Bit color.
• ANM; The video format used by Build engine games such as Duke Nukem 3D. Also only supports 8-Bit color.
• MVE; The video format used by several games published by Interplay such as Baldur's Gate and Fallout.