Also, here there are many different formats. The compression format denotes how the video data is organized on the inside of a container. For example, many web browsers are not able to play these formats natively.

This is confusing and can also lead to various playback issues. However, both Apple and Microsoft software (and others) still output other formats.

Nowadays, there seems to a converge towards using MPEG containers and. mov format for QuickTime files and Microsoft used to use. The container is often what denotes the file suffix. One of the confusing things about video files is that they have both a container and a compression format. In the following I will explain everything in a little more detail. If you came here to just see the solution, here you go: ffmpeg -i infile.mov -acodec copy -vcodec copy outfile.mp4 Here I will convert from a QuickTime (.mov) file to a standard MPEG-4 (.mp4), but the recipe should work between other formats too. In my ever-growing collection of smart FFmpeg tricks, here is a way of converting from one container format to another.

Ffmpeg mov to mp4 lossless