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webm files to MP4 with FFmpeg – the free and open source Swiss army knife of video conversion.

In this post I’ll cover how to convert a large library of. webm files are created by new HTML5 APIs like WebRTC when recording WebRTC sessions and the the MediaStream Recorder API. The WebM Project has been slowly getting more support from the browser community with Edge 14 adding support in the Anniversary edition of Windows 10.
