What people convert on mediaconvert

We publish our usage numbers. These figures come straight from the conversion ledger behind 1,123 free conversions — no estimates, no sampling.

Most-used conversions

Every finished job increments its format pair. Test and monitoring jobs are excluded, so these are real people converting real files.

1. MPEGMPEG → MP3337
2. MTSMTS → MP4320
3. MP4MP4 → JPG297
4. MPGMPG → MP4292
5. MP3MP3 → WAV164
6. M4AM4A → MP3106
7. MP3MP3 → OPUS92
8. FLACFLAC → MP379
9. EPUBEPUB → AZW373
10. MP4MP4 → WAV71
11. MSGMSG → PDF67
12. PNGPNG → PSD55
13. MP4MP4 → MP345
14. OTFOTF → TTF40
15. MP4MP4 → PNG37
16. MP3MP3 → OGG32
17. DOCDOC → PDF31
18. MP3MP3 → FLAC31
19. JPGJPEG → TGA30
20. MP3MP3 → AIFF30
21. PNGPNG → JPG25
22. HEICHEIC → JPG24
23. M4AM4A → WAV23
24. EMLEML → PDF22
25. WMAWMA → WAV22

Conversions by format family

1. Video converters1,494 · 52%
2. Audio converters663 · 23%
3. Image converters242 · 8%
4. Ebook converters176 · 6%
5. Email converters90 · 3%
6. Document converters79 · 3%
7. Font converters57 · 2%
8. Markup converters27 · 1%
9. Spreadsheet converters26 · 1%
10. Camera RAW converters17 · 1%
11. Vector converters8 · 0%
12. Pdf converters7 · 0%
13. Subtitle converters1 · 0%
14. Archive converters1 · 0%
15. Presentation converters1 · 0%
16. Data converters1 · 0%

Why the long tail matters

The top of this list looks like every converter: MP4, MP3, PDF. The interesting part is underneath. 25 distinct pairs have real usage, and most of them are formats big converters do not support at all — camcorder MTS, RealAudio, WPS spreadsheets, DjVu scans, LaTeX. That is why we maintain 1,123 pairs instead of a few dozen.

Method: counters live in Redis and are snapshotted to Postgres every three minutes. Visits exclude crawlers and our own development sessions. We never open, store beyond 24 hours, or analyse the contents of your files — only the pair name is counted. Data is free to cite (CC BY 4.0); link to this page as the source.