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Drop one WEBM or two hundred. Batch conversion is not a paid feature here.
A video downloaded from a website or recorded by a browser is WEBM, and a video editor, a phone or a social platform will not accept it.
This one is always a real transcode. WEBM carries VP8 or VP9 video with Vorbis or Opus audio, and MP4 in practice means H.264 with AAC, so every frame is decoded and re-encoded.
Because it is a genuine re-encode, quality is lost and the file usually gets bigger. VP9 is more efficient than H.264, so matching the visual quality of the source needs a higher bitrate than the WEBM used.
Roughly proportional to the length and resolution, because every frame is processed. It is not the seconds-long remux that MKV to MP4 can be.
Not entirely. Use a high quality setting so the loss stays invisible rather than measurable.
The MediaRecorder API has shipped VP8 and VP9 output for years, and those codecs are royalty free.
Drop one WEBM 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.