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Try another fileConverting video to MP4 is free: drop your video above, hit convert, and download the MP4. Files delete themselves within an hour.
Whatever your camera, screen recorder or download produced, converting that video to MP4 gets you a file built for playing everywhere: browsers, phones, TVs, editors, slide decks. Flippy reads practically any video format and writes clean MP4: codecs, containers and all the fiddly parts handled for you.
A classic video to MP4 job: camera clips, screen recordings and downloads, bound for feeds, chats and slide decks that expect video.
Video is the heaviest thing most of us ever attach: screen recordings, camera clips, whole talks. It comes from wherever your camera, screen recorder or download made it.
MP4 is the world's default video: the file that plays before anyone has to think about it. A container, most often carrying H.264 or H.265 video with AAC audio. That makes it the right destination when what you need is playing everywhere: browsers, phones, TVs, editors, slide decks.
Drop your video file into the flipper above, or click to browse for it.
Check the output format: MP4 is already selected for you.
Hit Convert, give it a moment, then download your new MP4.
Settings guidance for any video file to MP4: H.264 video with AAC audio is the compatibility sweet spot, and exactly what Flippy writes when a re-encode is needed. Flippy handles the codec choices, so the only real decision was picking MP4.
| video | MP4 | |
|---|---|---|
| Born | wherever your camera, screen recorder or download came from | 2001, the MPEG standards group, built on Apple's QuickTime design |
| Type | video · any format | video · container |
| Best for | any moving picture: recordings, rips, exports, downloads | playing everywhere: browsers, phones, TVs, editors, slide decks |
| Weak spot | nothing inherently; every container brings its own quirks | very little day to day: as a container its quality depends on the codec inside |
| Typical size | anywhere from short clips to multi-gigabyte recordings | roughly 50–100 MB per minute at 1080p, depending on bitrate |
| Plays on | Depends on the container and the codec inside it. | Every browser, phone, TV and editing app worth mentioning. |
Flippy always picks the gentlest path: container swaps and extractions copy your streams untouched, and re-encodes happen once, at quality matched to the source.
It depends on the format you pick as the output: lossy formats land a few megabytes per minute, lossless several times that.
Every browser, phone, TV and editing app worth mentioning. That's the usual reason people leave video behind: MP4 simply opens in more of the places that matter.
It scales with length and resolution: short clips finish in seconds, long HD videos can take a few minutes. Files auto-delete within an hour after.