.m4v
1 claimant
1 primary
0 secondary
unambiguous primary
SWH popularity
From the SWH-MSR-ARV dataset (Desmazières, Di Cosmo, Lorentz, MSR 2025; file nb_extensions_alphanum.csv) — one row per (ext, year) in the full SWH archive. Case-aggregated. citation.
57.6K
total occurrences
19.6K
since 2019 (34.0%)
2007–2023
years active
Case variants in archive: .m4v (56.5K), .M4V (1.1K) — aggregated above.
Attribution status
This extension is attributed to mp4 as primary by 1 authoritative claim.
Authoritative sources: ✗ Linguist · no claim ✗ Pygments · no claim ✓ Wikidata · Q336316 ✗ Wikipedia · no claim
Claimants (1)
Languages that list
.m4v among their extensions. Strength reflects whether the upstream source treated it as their primary extension.| Language | Source | Strength |
|---|---|---|
| mp4 | wikidata | primary |
Wikidata says… (2)
File formats, image formats, audio codecs and other non-PL
entities that claim
.m4v on Wikidata
(property P1195) or in the Wikipedia infobox.
Source: data/derived/external_extension_index.csv.
Click Use as new PL on any row to open the
Add-PL form pre-filled with that entry's name, Wikipedia/Wikidata
URL, and this extension — one submission creates the PL + claim.
| Format | Class (Wikidata P31) | Suggested label | MIME | Notes | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M4V Q1056154top match file format | video file format | binary:video | video/x-m4v | — | Use as new PL ↗ |
| MPEG-4 Part 14 Q336316 digital multimedia format most commonly used to store video and audio | digital container format; multimedia container | binary:video | video/mp4; audio/mp4 | — | Use as new PL ↗ |
SWH-mined examples (0)
No archived examples for .m4v in our local mirror yet.