MP4 to WAV

Extract audio from MP4 video file and convert to WAV for editing

MP4 is a new container format, a container format allows you to combine different multimedia streams into one single file. Multimedia containers are for example the well known AVI, MPEG , Matroska, OGM. MP4 is the global file extension for the official container format defined in the MPEG-4 standard.

MP4 is streamable and supports all kinds of multimedia content, multiple audio-, video-, subtitlestreams, pictures, variable-framerates, -bitrates, -samplerates...) and advanced content like 2D and 3D animated graphics, user interactivity, DVD-like menus.

Why we need to convert MP4 video files to WAV audio files? Sometimes, if you want to edit MP4 video files, you can not edit them directly, you have to extract the songs from MP4 files and save it as WAV audio files.

WAV was one of the first audio file types developed for the PC. WAV files are defined as lossless, meaning that files are large and complete. WAV format is a standard file format for storing audio streaming by Windows system, which features no compression, no quality loss, and easy for editing.

So if you want to convert your MP4 video files to audio files for editing, you'd better convert MP4 to WAV format. The most popular MP4 to WAV converters include ImTOO MPEG Encoder, AVI MPEG WMV RM to MP3 Converter, ImTOO Video to Audio Converter, etc. The following programs can convert MP4 to WAV:

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