HEVC to IMA Converter

Get IMA ADPCM audio from HEVC video quickly

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Embedded Audio

IMA ADPCM is standard in games and embedded systems — extracting from HEVC creates compatible audio.

Fast Extraction

Audio extraction skips video processing — your HEVC-to-IMA conversion finishes in seconds, not minutes.

Secure Files

HEVC uploads are erased immediately after conversion. IMA outputs are deleted within 24 hours.

How to convert HEVC to IMA

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Select files from Computer, Google Drive, Dropbox, URL or by dragging it on the page.

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Choose ima or any other format you need as a result (more than 200 formats supported)

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Let the file convert and you can download your ima file right afterwards

About formats

HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding), also designated as H.265 and MPEG-H Part 2, is a video compression standard developed jointly by the ITU-T Video Coding Experts Group and the ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group. Approved in January 2013, HEVC was designed as the successor to H.264/AVC with the primary goal of doubling the compression efficiency — achieving equivalent visual quality at roughly half the bit rate. The standard accomplishes this through larger coding tree units of up to 64x64 pixels, more sophisticated motion prediction with 35 directional intra modes, advanced sample adaptive offset filtering, and parallel processing tools including tiles and wavefront parallel processing. HEVC supports resolutions from 320x240 up to 8192x4320 (8K UHD), making it future-proof for emerging display technologies. The codec is widely adopted in broadcasting, where it enables efficient delivery of 4K and HDR content over bandwidth-constrained channels, as well as in video conferencing and surveillance applications. Apple adopted HEVC as the default recording format for iOS devices beginning with iOS 11, dramatically expanding its consumer reach. Despite technical superiority over H.264, a complex and fragmented patent licensing landscape has driven interest in royalty-free alternatives like AV1, though HEVC remains deeply embedded in broadcast infrastructure and consumer electronics worldwide.
Initial release: January 25, 2013
IMA ADPCM (Adaptive Differential Pulse-Code Modulation) is a compact audio coding standard published by the Interactive Multimedia Association in 1992, addressing the need for a lightweight, royalty-free compression scheme suitable for early multimedia PCs and embedded devices. The algorithm encodes each sample as a 4-bit nibble representing the quantized difference from the previous sample, while an adaptive step-size table adjusts dynamically to track signal amplitude — delivering a fixed 4:1 compression ratio over 16-bit PCM. Decoding requires only an integer multiply-add per sample and a small lookup table, so even modest 1990s CPUs could decompress in real time without dedicated DSP. The format became deeply embedded in the multimedia landscape: Microsoft adopted it as a standard ACM codec for WAV files, game engines relied on it for sound effects, and telephony equipment used it for voice storage. Its advantages are enduring: predictable 4:1 size reduction simplifies buffer allocation in constrained environments, the decode path runs on 8-bit microcontrollers, and the open specification made IMA ADPCM one of the most broadly implemented audio codecs in computing history.
Initial release: 1992

Frequently Asked Questions

Why convert HEVC to IMA?

IMA ADPCM achieves 4:1 compression with fast decoding — standard in games and embedded systems.

How do I open IMA files?

SoX, Audacity, and embedded audio system firmware.

Is only the audio extracted?

Yes — the video portion of the HEVC file is discarded. Only the audio track is saved as IMA.

Can I convert multiple files?

Upload several HEVC videos at once and extract IMA audio from each simultaneously in a single batch.

Are my uploads secure?

HEVC files are deleted immediately after conversion. IMA outputs are removed from our servers within 24 hours.