MPEG-2 stream file format
File type: Digital video and movie file
An m2p file extension is used for video files that contains audio and video in MPEG-2 video file format. M2P video containers are used especially for video streaming. It is also used by various DVR recorders to stored captured video from digital broadcast.
Found 3 different file type records with the same m2p filename suffix.
File type category:
Digital video and movie file
Date updated: July 13, 2025
The m2p file extension is associated with video files stored in MPEG-2 video and audio file format. M2P video container is used for media streaming.
MPEG-2 video format is used with digital television broadcasting over the air, cable, and satellite TV. It also specifies the format of movies that are distributed on DVD digital video disks.
MPEG-2 is a standard for "the generic coding of moving pictures and associated audio information". It describes a combination of lossy video compression and lossy audio compression (audio data compression) methods which permit storage and transmission of movies using currently available storage media and transmission bandwidth.
Standard MPEG-2 videos are stored in containers with file extension mpg, mpeg, or m2v.
Use VLC Player, Media Player Classic, Windows Media Player etc. to open M2P mpeg-2 stream files.
Use Adobe Encoder to convert M2P video streams to any other video file format.
Adobe Premiere Pro (Microsoft Windows)
Adobe Premiere Pro for Mac (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)
Adobe Premiere Pro (Microsoft Windows)
Adobe Premiere Pro for Mac (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)
Adobe Premiere Pro (Microsoft Windows)
Adobe Premiere Pro for Mac (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)
VLC media player (Microsoft Windows)
Cyberlink PowerDVD (Microsoft Windows)
BS.Player (Microsoft Windows)
Media Player Classic (Microsoft Windows)
Microsoft Windows Media Player (Microsoft Windows)
Apple QuickTime (Microsoft Windows)
VLC media player for Mac (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)
Apple QuickTime for Mac (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)
VLC media player for Linux (Linux/Unix)
Adobe Premiere Pro (Microsoft Windows)
Adobe Premiere Pro for Mac (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)
Nero Video (Nero Vision Express) (Microsoft Windows)
Nero Recode (Microsoft Windows)
Adobe Premiere Pro (Microsoft Windows)
Adobe Premiere Pro for Mac (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)
File type category:
Various data file
Date updated: September 11, 2019
The m2p file extension is related to the GROMACS, a program used to perform molecular dynamics, developed by University of Groningen (now Gromacs).
The m2p file contains Mat2PS data from GROMACS.
Probably not meant to be accessed by the user.
Probably cannot be converted to anything else.
GROMACS (Microsoft Windows)
File type category:
Plugin, addon file
Date updated: December 18, 2018
The m2p file extension is related to Maxthon, a web browser, available for Windows and other platforms and used for plugin packages which are used to add new features or functions to Maxthon.
You can import these packages to Maxthon web browser.
Plugins are not meant to be converted to other formats, but imported to the program to add/improve certain functions.
Maxthon Cloud Browser (Multiplatform)
Maxthon Cloud Browser (Multiplatform)
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