Convert MP4 to M2V
With our free online converter, you can convert mp4 files to m2v as well as a variety of other formats.
Converting your mp4 file to m2v is easy with these steps.
Converting your m2v file to mp4 is easy with these steps.
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Converting mp4 to m2v
MPEG-4 Video File
| Extension | .mp4 |
| Category | 🔵 video |
| Programs | 🔵 Microsoft Windows Media Player 🔵 VLC media player 🔵 MPlayer 🔵 Eltima Elmedia Player 🔵 Winamp 🔵 Apple QuickTime Player 🔵 Apple iTunes |
| Description | 🔵 MP4 is one of the popular digital multimedia formats. The original name is MPEG-4 Part 14. It is one of the most versatile digital multimedia formats because it can play both video and audio files. Besides, you can use MP4 file formats for many other purposes, such as streaming over the Internet and storing still images. The characteristics of MP4 files include but are not limited to:
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| Technical details | 🔵 How to create and how to open an MP4 fileYou can create an MP4 file by recording video with your device or by using certain software. You can also use various converters to convert videos to MP4 file formats. How to Open an MP4 File Almost all the video players open an MP4 file because MP4 is a standardized digital file format. You can open an MP4 file in several ways, such as using either the Windows Media PlayerorVLC Media Player. Some of the others that can open the MP4 file are QuickTime (for macOS), MPlayer, VLC Media Player, and X Codec Pack. Which other formats MP4 can be converted into and whyMP4 is widely used as a video file format because of the efficient video compression scheme that prevents data loss when converting. Besides, you can use a lot of tools to seamlessly convert your MP4 file to another file format. Some of the popular video formats are:
MP4 is supported by almost any device that is able to play video. However sometimes a user might need to convert it to another format. MKV is well known for being able to store a huge amount of information like dozens of audio streams and subtitles. WMV format provides better compression than MP4 does. |
| Developer | 🔵 Moving Picture Experts Group |
| MIME type | 🔵 audio/mp4 🔵 video/mp4 |
m2v
| Extension | .m2v |
| Category | 🔵 video |
| Description | 🔵 M2V is a format that supports video-only storage; accompanying audios or subtitles are stored in separate data files. Though the M2V is not as efficient as newer video storage and transmission standards like AVC and HEVC, it enjoys usage to date due to its backward compatibility with recent video creation technology. M2V was used in its hay days as a format for storing motion pictures; old movie reels can be used on digital TV and more advanced video transmissions technologies like DVD and DVB-S2. |
| Technical details | 🔵 Files with the .m2v extension are referred to as MPEG-2 video stream files. The MPEG-2 is the format of choice for transmitting digital Television signals via cable or satellite TV broadcast. M2V files are hardly seen alone since their source data contains video alone.; hence, accompanying audio, metadata, and subtitle files are included in whatever media where the .m2v file is stored. M2V files are usually seen on DVD-creation tools and programs, combined with other separate items like WAV or AIF files, menus, and video chapter points, to build an intelligible DVD video. Rather than using conventional audio files like .ogg or .wav, some DVD-creation programs utilize the MPEG-1 audio file format. |