Curator supports most common, and some uncommon, media types. However, because every web browser is different, even if media is supported in Curator, it may not be supported on the Art Museum website.
Unlike other formats (see below), image files are relatively simple. Thus, any valid file of one
of the following formats will be supported by any modern browser without issue. However, any other formats
are very unlikely to work.
HTML5 Supported Image Types:
Unlike images, video files contain multple types of data. Because of this, common file types (such
as .mp4) are just containers. The acctaul video and audio data inside are then encoded using
standard encodings (such as h264, vp9, and Vorbis). While this can sound like a complex problem (and
it can be at times) most browsers will support any format that these containers support. However, if you or another
visitor of the Art Museum website is having trouble playing media, it may be a good idea to try re-exporting the files
from your media creation tool with different settings.
HTML5 Supported Video Container Types:
Audio files can suffer from many of the same problems as video files (see above), however, they generally
are a lot simpler as their is only one type of data contained within the audio container file. Thus, a browser will
generally be able to play audio data no matter what encoding it uses within a supported container.
HTML5 Supported Audio Container Types:
While most media types support metadata of some kind. Curator can only load metadata from a few types.
Curator Supported Metadata Types