HEVC to HCOM Converter

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Compressed Mac Audio

HCOM uses Huffman compression — extracting from HEVC creates compact vintage Mac audio files.

Fast Extraction

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

Secure Files

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

How to convert HEVC to HCOM

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

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Choose hcom 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 hcom 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
HCOM is a Huffman-coded audio format from the early Macintosh era, designed to shrink digitized sound for distribution on floppy disks and bulletin board systems when storage was precious and modems were slow. The encoder takes 8-bit unsigned PCM input, computes a frequency table of sample-delta values, and builds an optimal Huffman tree that replaces common deltas with short bit sequences. Compression ratios of 2:1 or better were typical for speech recordings, a meaningful saving when a 3.5-inch floppy held only 800 KB. Files were distributed as Macintosh resource forks and played through utilities like SoundApp and the BinHex ecosystem that defined Mac software exchange in the late 1980s. The format supported sample rates up to 22.255 kHz, matching the output capabilities of original Macintosh sound hardware. Tools such as SoX retain HCOM decoding support, ensuring that archived recordings remain accessible decades later. HCOM holds three practical advantages for preservation work: lossless compression that recovers the original samples exactly, a self-contained Huffman table embedded in each file for dependency-free decoding, and historical prevalence across thousands of vintage Mac sound archives.
Developer: Apple Computer
Initial release: 1985

Frequently Asked Questions

Why convert HEVC to HCOM?

HCOM is a Huffman-compressed format from early Macintosh computing.

How do I open HCOM files?

SoX and classic Macintosh audio utilities.

Is only the audio extracted?

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

Can I convert multiple files?

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

Are my uploads secure?

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