Convert MPEG to MP4

Converting MPEG (usually MPEG-1 or MPEG-2) to MP4 (MPEG-4) brings several practical advantages. It modernizes content from older formats that were common in the early days of digital video, DVD authoring, and early web videos. MP4 offers better compression efficiency (smaller files at the same quality), broader compatibility with modern devices and platforms, and support for advanced features like streaming optimization. This conversion is useful for archiving older content, making DVD-era videos more accessible on modern devices, reducing storage requirements, and ensuring your videos work well across today's digital ecosystem.

The conversion itself doesn't enhance the inherent quality of the original footage. The converter creates MP4 files with standard settings. For advanced enhancements like upscaling, color correction, noise reduction, or audio restoration, you may need to use video editing software before converting.

Interlacing (where video frames are split into alternating lines) was common in older MPEG formats but causes visible artifacts on modern displays. The converter creates MP4 files with standard settings. For advanced deinterlacing options, you may need to use video editing software before converting.

Older MPEG content often used different aspect ratios than today's widescreen standard, like 4:3 (square) format. The converter creates MP4 files with standard settings. For advanced aspect ratio handling like framing, cropping, or stretching, you may need to use video editing software before converting.

Older MPEG files often had basic audio (stereo or even mono) with limited quality. The converter creates MP4 files with standard settings. For advanced audio enhancements like spatial enhancement, voice clarification, dynamic range optimization, or format upgrading, you may need to use audio editing software before converting.