Supported containers and codecs

Media containers

• MP4 *note 1
• TS *note 2
• ADTS
• WEBM *note 3

note 1: For MP4 container, embedded audio tracks are not supported.
note 2: For TS container, only a single embedded audio track is supported.
note 3: Encrypted contents with DRM (Widevine, ClearKey, etc) dont works, due to incomplete implementation.

Video codecs

• AVC / H.264
• HEVC / H.265 (NOTE: DRM content decoding supported only on Android devices)
• VP9
• AV1 (NOTE: Kodi v20 or above)

The hardware video decoding on DRM protected videos is available on Android devices with Widevine L1.

Dolby vision / HDR are supported but require suitable hardware.

Color depth

• Until Kodi 20 non-Android systems, are limited to codec profiles with 8 bit color depth.
• From Kodi 21 and above, are supported codec profiles until 12 bit color depth on all systems.

Audio codecs

• MP4A
• AAC
• AC-3
• E-AC3 (EC-3)
• DCA (DTS)
• OPUS
• VORBIS

Subtitles codecs

• TTML - Timed Text Markup Language *note 1
• WebVTT - Web Video Text Tracks as text format type (https://www.w3.org/TR/webvtt1/) *note 2
• WebVTT - Web Video Text Tracks as "MP4" (ISO/IEC 14496-30:2014) format type *note 2
• DVB - Digital Video Broadcasting subtitle stream (MPEG-2 Transport Stream, TS-MPEG)

note 1: Support limited to text only, and does not guarantee correct display. Currently can be read XML TTML, ISO BMFF TTML is partially supported.
note 2: The full support has been added on Kodi 20. (Kodi versions prior to v20 still use a dummy parser limited to text only, and does not guarantee correct display of subtitles). For the ISO/IEC format exists different kind of features for which are not supported and display problems may occur.