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(*) Some derivatives only apply to certain collections.

Derivatives for Movies Items

If your source file is format: . . . then we will try to derive the following formats:
Cinepack h.264 h.264 486P h.264 720P h.264 popcorn MP3 MPEG2 MPEGTS/h.264 MPEGTS/Thumbnail Ogg Video SubRip Thumbnail
3GP movies movies          (*) movies          (*) movies
56Kb QuickTime movies movies          (*) movies          (*) movies
64Kb MPEG4 movies          (*) movies          (*) movies
64Kb QuickTime movies movies          (*) movies          (*) movies
256Kb MPEG4 movies          (*) movies          (*) movies
256Kb QuickTime movies movies          (*) movies          (*) movies
512Kb MPEG4 movies
Cinepack movies movies          (*) movies          (*) movies          (*) movies
DivX movies movies          (*) movies          (*) movies          (*) movies
DV Video movies movies          (*) movies          (*) movies          (*) movies
Flash Video movies movies          (*) movies          (*) movies          (*) movies
FLV 400k movies movies          (*) movies
h.264 movies
h.264 HD movies movies          (*) movies          (*) movies          (*) movies
h.264 MPEG4 movies movies          (*) movies          (*) movies          (*) movies
h.264/MPEG2-TS movies movies          (*) movies          (*) movies          (*) movies          (*) movies movies
ISO Image movies movies          (*) movies          (*) movies          (*) movies movies
IV50 movies movies          (*) movies          (*) movies          (*) movies
LinkTV FLV (512k) movies movies          (*) movies
Matroska movies movies          (*) movies          (*) movies          (*) movies          (*) movies
Metadata movies          (*)
Motion JPEG movies movies          (*) movies          (*) movies          (*) movies
Movie Frames movies
MPEG1 movies movies          (*) movies          (*) movies          (*) movies movies
MPEG2 movies movies          (*) movies          (*) movies          (*) movies          (*) movies movies
MPEG2-TS movies movies          (*) movies          (*) movies          (*) movies movies
MPEG4 movies movies          (*) movies          (*) movies          (*) movies          (*) movies
MPEG4 1.5Mbps movies movies          (*) movies
MPEGTS movies          (*) movies movies
Ogg Theora movies movies          (*) movies          (*) movies          (*) movies
Ogg Video movies movies
QuickTime movies movies          (*) movies          (*) movies          (*) movies          (*) movies          (*) movies
QuickTime 1.5Mbps movies movies          (*) movies
QuickTime 1Mbps movies movies          (*) movies
Real Media movies movies          (*) movies          (*) movies          (*) movies
WebM movies movies          (*) movies          (*) movies          (*) movies          (*) movies
Windows Media movies movies          (*) movies          (*) movies          (*) movies          (*) movies

Derivatives for Audio Items

If your source file is format: . . . then we will try to derive the following formats:
64Kbps MP3 Flac MP3 Sample Ogg Vorbis PNG VBR MP3
3GP Audio audio          (*) audio          (*) audio          (*) audio          (*) audio
8Kbps MP3 audio          (*)
16Kbps MP3 audio          (*)
24bit Flac audio          (*) audio          (*) audio          (*) audio          (*) audio
24Kbps MP3 audio          (*)
32Kbps MP3 audio          (*) audio          (*)
40Kbps MP3 audio          (*)
48Kbps MP3 audio          (*) audio          (*)
56Kbps MP3 audio          (*)
64Kbps MP3 audio          (*) audio          (*)
72Kbps MP3 audio          (*)
80Kbps MP3 audio          (*)
96Kbps MP3 audio          (*) audio          (*) audio          (*) audio          (*)
104Kbps MP3 audio          (*)
112Kbps MP3 audio          (*)
120Kbps MP3 audio          (*)
128Kbps MP3 audio          (*) audio          (*) audio          (*) audio          (*) audio
136Kbps MP3 audio          (*)
144Kbps MP3 audio          (*)
152Kbps MP3 audio          (*)
160Kbps MP3 audio          (*) audio          (*) audio          (*) audio          (*) audio
168Kbps MP3 audio          (*)
176Kbps MP3 audio          (*)
184Kbps MP3 audio          (*)
192Kbps MP3 audio          (*) audio          (*) audio          (*) audio          (*) audio
200Kbps MP3 audio          (*)
208Kbps MP3 audio          (*)
216Kbps MP3 audio          (*)
224Kbps MP3 audio          (*)
232Kbps MP3 audio          (*)
240Kbps MP3 audio          (*)
256Kbps MP3 audio          (*) audio          (*) audio          (*) audio          (*) audio
288Kbps MP3 audio          (*)
320Kbps MP3 audio          (*) audio          (*) audio          (*) audio          (*) audio
Advanced Audio Coding audio          (*) audio          (*) audio          (*) audio          (*) audio
AIFF audio          (*) audio          (*) audio          (*) audio          (*) audio
Apple Lossless Audio audio          (*) audio          (*) audio          (*) audio          (*) audio
Digital Theater Systems Audio audio          (*) audio audio          (*) audio          (*) audio          (*) audio
Flac audio          (*) audio          (*) audio          (*) audio          (*) audio
Kbps MP3 audio          (*)
MIDI audio          (*) audio          (*) audio          (*) audio
MP3 (other) audio          (*)
MPEG Audio audio          (*) audio          (*) audio          (*) audio          (*) audio
Ogg Vorbis audio          (*) audio          (*) audio          (*) audio
Real Audio audio          (*) audio          (*) audio          (*) audio          (*) audio
Segment Data audio          (*) audio
Shorten audio          (*) audio          (*) audio          (*) audio          (*) audio
VBR MP3 audio          (*) audio          (*) audio          (*) audio          (*)
WAVE audio          (*) audio audio          (*) audio          (*) audio          (*) audio
WebA audio          (*) audio          (*) audio          (*) audio          (*) audio
Windows Media Audio audio          (*) audio          (*) audio          (*) audio          (*) audio

Derivatives for Texts Items

If your source file is format: . . . then we will try to derive the following formats:
Abbyy GZ ACS Encrypted EPUB ACS Encrypted PDF Additional Text PDF ASR Book Cover Columbia Fingerprint TV Columbia Peaks Columbia Sparse Fingerprint TV Contents DjVuTXT Djvu XML Grayscale LuraTech PDF JSON List Inversion Log Metadata Log NRT Processed Parsed GZ PersonalArchiveLog Scandata Single Page Processed JP2 ZIP Single Page Processed TIFF ZIP Spectrogram Text PDF VOB
Abbyy GZ texts texts          (*) texts texts texts texts texts texts          (*) texts texts texts
ABBYY XML texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts          (*) texts texts texts
Additional Text PDF texts          (*)
Book Metadata texts
Comic Book RAR texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts
Comic Book ZIP texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts
DjVu texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts
Djvu XML texts texts          (*) texts
DVD Info texts          (*)
EPUB texts texts          (*) texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts
Extra Metadata JSON texts
Generic Raw Book Tar texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts
Generic Raw Book Zip texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts
Image Container PDF texts texts texts          (*) texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts
Microfilm Original TIFF ZIP texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts
MP3 texts          (*) texts          (*) texts          (*)
MusicBrainz Metadata texts
NRT texts          (*) texts
OCLC xISBN JSON texts
OCLC xISBN ZIP texts
Original DjVu texts texts texts texts
PersonalArchive texts
Raw BDRC Book Zip texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts
Raw China Book Zip texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts
Raw Cornell Book Zip texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts
Raw Michigan Book Zip texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts
Raw NIH Book Zip texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts
Raw Yale Book Zip texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts
Raw Yale Medical Book Zip texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts
Simple List JSONL texts
Single Page FIXME JPEG ZIP texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts
Single Page Original JP2 Tar texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts
Single Page Original JP2 ZIP texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts
Single Page Processed JP2 Tar texts          (*) texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts
Single Page Processed JP2 ZIP texts          (*) texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts
Single Page Processed JPEG Tar texts          (*) texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts
Single Page Processed JPEG ZIP texts          (*) texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts
Single Page Processed TIFF ZIP texts          (*) texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts
Single Page Raw JP2 Tar texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts
Single Page Raw JP2 ZIP texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts
Single Page Raw JPEG Tar texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts
Single Page Raw JPEG ZIP texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts
SubRip texts          (*)
Text PDF texts texts texts          (*) texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts
Texts Transclusion Contents texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts texts

Derivatives for Other Items

If your source file is format: . . . then we will try to derive the following formats:
ARC CDX Index ARC Transformation GZ BitTorrentContents HeritrixCrawlLog JPEG Thumb WARC CDX Index WARC HostLinks GZ WARC Transformation GZ WARC UrlLinks Log
Animated GIF question
BitTorrent question
HeritrixJob question
Internet Archive ARC question question          (*)
Internet Archive ARC GZ question question          (*)
JPEG question
JPEG 2000 question
PNG question
Web ARChive question question          (*)
Web ARChive GZ question question          (*) question          (*) question          (*)

Additional info on audio/video derivatives

  • h.264 / mp4 derivatives:
              video (h.264):
              640x480 (width scaled if wider/narrower than 4x3 ratio)
              ~768kb/sec (maxrate)
              audio (AAC):
              stereo, 128kb/sec 44.1Khz sampling
              
  • ogv derivatives:
              video (theora):
              400x300 (width scaled if wider/narrower than 4x3 ratio)
              target ~512 kb/sec
              audio (vorbis):
              stereo, ~128kb/sec 44.1Khz sampling
              
  • mp3 derivatives:
                MP3 format, stereo, lame compressor "-standard" parameter/setting
                which targets ~140 kb/sec
              

Advanced techniques and help

To remove and/or prevent a particular audio or video derivative format

If for some reason, you prefer to not have your item create the derivative of one or more of the audio or video (mp3 ogg mp4 ogv) formats, you can upload to your item a special "rules" named "_rules.conf". That file should be a text file, with a single line of each format to disallow.

So, for example, to make (all videos in) a video item *not* create our "h.264"/mp4 or ogv formats, you would upload "_rules.conf" containing the following:

To make all audio files in an item *not* create our mp3 or ogg formats, you would upload "_rules.conf" containing the following:

To prohibit *just* video and audio derived formats that are "lossy" (eg: mp3, ogg, mp4, ogv) you would upload "_rules.conf" containing the following:

NOTE: We only allow prohibiting lossy derivative now -- so CAT.ALL is now the same as CAT.lossy.
To prohibit *all* derived formats, you would upload "_rules.conf" containing the following:

To make any previously created derivatives "disappear" after adding or updating a "_rules.conf" file to an item, use the "Item Manager" link to submit a "derive" task (which will remove the undesired derivatives). (Find the "Edit Item" link in the upper right of your item while you are logged in, click "change the information" link, click the "Item Manager" link near the top of that page, then hit the "derive" button).