What is the difference between .mp4 and .m4a?
- Extension
- .mp4
- .m4a
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Video
- Audio
- Developer
- Moving Picture Experts Group
- Apple
- Description
- An MP4 file is a multimedia file commonly used to store a movie or video clip, but may also contain subtitles or images. MP4 is short for MPEG-4 Part 14, which is a container format based on the QuickTime File Format (QTFF) used by .MOV and .QT files.
- An M4A file is an audio file created in the MPEG-4 format, a multimedia container format used to store compressed audio and video data. It contains audio encoded with either the Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) codec or the Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC).
- MIME Type
- video/mp4
- audio/mp4
- Sample
- sample.mp4
- sample.m4a
- Wikipedia
- .mp4 on Wikipedia
- .m4a on Wikipedia