Convert MKV to GIF
Convert MKV files to GIF entirely in your browser. Old-school looping animation — universal, but huge and silent (no audio, 256 colours). Drop your MKV below — vexo runs ffmpeg-wasm locally, nothing is uploaded.
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About MKV → GIF
Why convert MKV to GIF?
GIF embeds anywhere — chat, email, docs, forums — and loops automatically without a player. Great for short reactions and demo clips, but expect a 5–10× larger file than the equivalent video and no audio. MKV is excellent for archiving with subtitles and multiple audio tracks, but few mobile devices or browsers play it directly. vexo extracts the primary video and audio into a clean MP4-compatible stream.
About MKV
MKV (Matroska) is the most flexible video container in common use — it can wrap virtually any video codec, any audio codec, multiple subtitle tracks and chapter metadata in a single file. That makes it the default choice for archives, encodes from physical media, and downloads that need to ship subtitles. The catch: very few browsers, iOS devices, smart TVs or editors open MKV directly. Converting to MP4 gives you the same video stream in a container the rest of the world actually plays.
About GIF
GIF is the original looping animation format. Every browser, chat app, document editor and forum can embed it inline without a video player. The trade-off is brutal: GIFs are capped at 256 colours per frame, carry no audio, and are far larger than equivalent video. vexo extracts the trimmed range, resizes if requested, builds an optimised palette, and writes a single GIF — useful for short reactions, demo loops and email-friendly clips.
What you're converting between
A short primer on both formats so the trade-offs are obvious before you hit Convert.
MKV
SourceMatroska · introduced 2002
MKV (Matroska) is the most flexible video container in common use — it can wrap virtually any video codec, any audio codec, multiple subtitle tracks and chapter metadata in a single file. That makes it the default choice for archives, encodes from physical media, and downloads that need to ship subtitles. The catch: very few browsers, iOS devices, smart TVs or editors open MKV directly. Converting to MP4 gives you the same video stream in a container the rest of the world actually plays.
Strengths
- Holds anything — video, audio, subtitles, chapters
- Open, royalty-free container
Trade-offs
- iOS, most browsers and TVs cannot play it directly
- vexo keeps only the primary video and audio track when converting
- Subtitles and secondary audio are not preserved
GIF
TargetGraphics Interchange Format · introduced 1987
GIF is the original looping animation format. Every browser, chat app, document editor and forum can embed it inline without a video player. The trade-off is brutal: GIFs are capped at 256 colours per frame, carry no audio, and are far larger than equivalent video. vexo extracts the trimmed range, resizes if requested, builds an optimised palette, and writes a single GIF — useful for short reactions, demo loops and email-friendly clips.
Strengths
- Embeds anywhere — chat, email, docs, forums
- Auto-loops with no player UI
- Universal — supported since the 80s
Trade-offs
- No audio, ever
- 256 colours per frame — gradients posterise
- Often 5–10× larger than the equivalent MP4 or WebM
Popular conversions
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Supported formats
MP4 is the safest default for web and mobile playback. WebM gives the smallest files for modern browsers. GIF is for short, soundless animations.
WMV, FLV and other legacy/streaming formats are not supported in this version. Please convert those to MP4 first using a desktop tool.
| Format | Input | Output | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| MP4 | Yes | Yes | H.264 + AAC, broadest compatibility |
| MOV | Yes | No | Apple/QuickTime container; convert to MP4 |
| WebM | Yes | Yes | VP9 + Opus, smaller than MP4 |
| MKV | Yes | No | Container; convert to MP4 or WebM |
| AVI | Yes | No | Legacy container; convert to MP4 |
| GIF | Yes | Yes | No audio, short clips only |
| WMV | No | No | Not supported |
| FLV | No | No | Not supported |
Frequently asked questions
Your videos never leave your device
vexo is a static page. Every conversion runs inside your browser via ffmpeg compiled to WebAssembly. There is no server-side processing, no upload, no temporary file, no cache. When you close this tab, every file is gone.
- No account required.
- No server processing. Your videos stay on your device.
- No caching, no Service Worker, no IndexedDB persistence.
- The conversion engine (ffmpeg-wasm) is fetched from a public CDN and cached by the browser; no personal data is sent.