File Extension Library


.M-JPEG File Extension

  • Developer by: Microsoft Corporation
  • Category: Digital video and movie Files

What are .M-JPEG files and how to open them?

Can't open .M-JPEG file? Are you wondering what it contains? On our site we will explain to you what this file is, what it is used for and what software opens the .M-JPEG file.

What is a .M-JPEG file extension?

.M-JPEG file extension is created by Microsoft Corporation. .M-JPEG has been classified as Digital video and movie Files.

.M-JPEG is M-JPEG data

The m-jpeg stands for Motion JPEG. M-JPEG is a video format that uses JPEG picture compression in each frame of the video. Frames of the video don't interact with each other in any way (like they do in MPEG-1, MPEG-2, etc..) which results in much bigger filesize, but in other hand, it makes the video editing easier because each of the frames has all of the information they need stored in them.

M-JPEG is used in very high quality video captures -- normally as the raw data format which is edited and compressed into another format after the editing process is completed. Unfortunaly M-JPEG is not a standard or even standardized -- each vendor has their own codecs and normally M-JPEG files created with one codec cannot be read with other vendor's codecs.

M-JPEG is the format that is recommended to use in video capture process as a raw data format. Editing this videostream is extremely easy and encoding the edited M-JPEG stream into final format (such as MPEG-1, MPEG-2 or Divx) gives normally the best possible video quality.


How to open:

Use Windows Media Player to playback *.m-jpeg files.

How to convert:

Probably can be exported to other formats.

How to fix problems with .M-JPEG files

  1. You need to update the application that you normally use to open .M-JPEG files. Only the latest version of the software supports the current .M-JPEG file format
  2. You need to check the .M-JPEG file for viruses. To do this, you need to scan it with a popular antivirus (Norton, Nod32, Kaspersky, Dr.Web, etc.)