Media Types

Overview

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.

Image Media

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:

Video Media

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:

Curator will automatically convert the following video container types into an Mpeg4 container. Note that as the Mpeg4 container type is a subtype of quicktime, the type field may still show 'video/quicktime'.
Types converted By Curator

Audio Media

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:

Metadata

While most media types support metadata of some kind. Curator can only load metadata from a few types.
Curator Supported Metadata Types