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Drop one MKV or two hundred. Batch conversion is not a paid feature here.
An MKV downloaded or ripped will not play on a phone, a smart TV, a games console or in a browser, all of which happily play MP4.
MKV is a very permissive container and MP4 is a strict one. If the video is H.264 or HEVC and the audio is AAC, the streams are copied over unchanged and the conversion takes seconds regardless of file size.
Subtitles are where this breaks. MKV commonly carries ASS or SSA subtitles with fonts, positioning and karaoke effects, and MP4 has no equivalent. They are either converted to plain timed text and lose all styling, or burned permanently into the picture.
Usually the audio. Many MKVs carry DTS or FLAC, which most TVs will not decode, even though the video itself is fine.
MP4 can hold several, but many players only expose the first. Pick the track you want during conversion rather than relying on the player.
Seconds if the streams are compatible and can be copied. Hours if a full re-encode is required.
Drop one MKV or two hundred. Batch conversion is not a paid feature here.
MPEG-4 Video is lossy, so the quality control decides the trade between size and fidelity.
Instant, because the file never went anywhere. Nothing expires, since nothing was stored.