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mpv vs mp4 format

Posted: Mon May 14, 2018 4:28 am
by dghenry1
Description of problem or question:
I set the fomat to convert my mov videos to mp4 but they produce m4v instead. What am I doing wrong?



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Re: mpv vs mp4 format

Posted: Mon May 14, 2018 10:57 am
by rollin_eng

Re: mpv vs mp4 format

Posted: Mon May 14, 2018 9:25 pm
by dghenry1
Thanks. I saw somewhere else that the formats were almost the same. This says they are the same.

Re: mpv vs mp4 format

Posted: Mon May 14, 2018 11:39 pm
by Woodstock
As explained in the article, though, some players do not TREAT the extensions the same.

I have a TV that won't play an MP4 across the network unless it has the m4v extension. Same TV refuses to play MKV files, unless they have an avi extension, and those are incompatible formats. "Smart TVs" aren't very.