An mpg4 file extension is used for multimedia container file format that stores MPEG-4 encoded video and Advanced Audio Coding (AAC)-encoded audio content.
Software that open mpg4 file
MPG4 file extension - MPEG-4 video file format
What is mpg4 file? How to open mpg4 files?
The mpg4 file extension is associated with MPEG-4 multimedia file format. MPEG-4 is an International Standards Organization (ISO) specification that covers many aspects of multimedia presentation including compression, authoring and delivery.
The MPEG-4 file format, as defined by the MPEG-4 specification, contains MPEG-4 encoded video and Advanced Audio Coding (AAC)-encoded audio content.
MPG4 is a container format. As any other container format like AVI (avi), RealMedia (rm, rmvb), QuickTime (mov), MPEG (mpg, mpeg), Matroska (mkv, mka), OGM (ogm) it allows you to combine different multimedia streams (mostly audio and video) into one single file.
MIME types:
video/mp4
Updated: January 20, 2025
The default software associated to open mpg4 file:
Company or developer:
VideoLAN Project Team
Very popular multimedia player developed for Windows, Apple Mac, Linux, Unix, and various other operating systems and platforms.
VLC can playback many of the video formats (AVI, MKV, OGV, WMV, ASF, MOV...) and audio formats (MP3, AAC, M4A, OGG, FLAC...) as well as support of subtitles for video. It can also be used as a streaming server and multimedia transcoder.
List of software applications associated to the .mpg4 file extension
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Software that open mpg4 file - MPEG-4 video file format
Programs supporting the exension mpg4 on the main platforms Windows, Mac, Linux or mobile. Click on the link to get more information about listed programs for open mpg4 file action.
Microsoft Windows:
Microsoft Windows Media Player
Apple QuickTime (obsolete/discontinued)