Part 1: DeltaServer Software > Delta Supported Media and File Locations > Movies

Note: All outputs from a single server must be configured to the same video format and refresh rate. See also Timing Configuration.

Format	Image Quality	Hardware Requirement
7th	Medium	6:1 compression, lowest hardware requirements
7th 420	Good	[4:2:0] This is 2:1 compression, and can be the best compromise between quality and performance High performance disks required
7th 420 Z	Good	[4:2:0] 2:1 compression with lossless compression. High performance CPU and disks required
7th 422	Excellent	[4:2:2] This is 1.5:1 compression, and improves on the 420 format for quality. High performance disks required
7th 422 Z	Excellent	[4:2:2] 1.5:1 compression with lossless compression. High performance CPU and disks required
7th 422 10 bit	Excellent	[4:2:2] Added colour depth. This is 1.5:1 compression, and improves on the 420 format for quality. High performance disks required
7th RGB Z	Perfect	Lossless compression. High performance CPU and disks required
7th 444	Perfect	[4:4:4] No compression High performance disks required
7th 444A	Perfect	[4:4:4:4] No compression High performance disks required Alpha Layer
7th HapQ (YCoCgS)	Good to Excellent	3:1 compression
YUV 422	Excellent	[4:2:2] Raw, single 422 frames in 2VUY [UYVY] 8-bit format.
DPX	Perfect	No compression, can be 8, 10 or 12-bit
CIN	Perfect	No compression, can be 8 or 10-bit
A7S	Perfect	No compression (can be losslessly compressed), can be 8 or 10-bit, RGB or 422 colour space.
TGA	Perfect	Uncompressed or RLE compression, 24-bit (can have 8-bit alpha plane) or 16-bit (optional 1-bit alpha plane). Single file per frame TGA files are supported.
SGI	Perfect	No compression, 8-bit

Note that TGA, A7S, CIN, DPX and SGI sequences can be used as movies with a system using SSD and NVMe disks.

BMP, TIF, JPG2000 and JPG are not optimised for real-time playback, but can be used as a source movie for recording out to another format.