Their respective codecs like H.264 for video or AAC for audio. Streams of data (video, audio, subtitles) with different codecs into a single MKV or MP4 file. Instead, both are video container formats. To get there from almost any source material.įirst off, neither MKV nor MP4 are video codecs. Videos from all my Apple devices without the need for additional software, like VLC or IINA.įor many people not that deep into video file formats I want to explain what the supported formats for video on macOS are and how The main reason for this is that I want to be able to play back
I recently started to convert all of my movies from MKV to MP4.