My MP4 video file does not play with QuickTime on my iMac
My MP4 video file does not play with Quicktime on my iMac
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iMac 27″ 5K, macOS 13.6
What codec does the .mp4 have?? You can check it with MediaInfo or Invisor.
macOS 14 Sonoma QuickTime Player does not play video codecs like H.265 with Codec ID hev1, VP8 and VP9, and audio codecs like Vorbis (Sonoma now supports Opus audio), and wrappers like .avi, .mkv and .webm.
macOS 10.14 Mojave QuickTime Player does not play H.265 with Chroma subsampling 4:2:2 (Bit depth 10 bits).
IINA and VLC should have no issues with playing any decent new or old codec or wrapper.
Handbrake, Shutter Encoder, VLC and ffmpeg can be used to convert old codecs to H.264 or H.265 video and AAC audio wrapped as .mp4 (or its very close cousin .m4v or .mov. I have used MacPorts to install ffmpeg but there are also precompiled versions).
ffmpeg can losslessly and very fast fix that H.265 with Codec ID hev1 issue with:
ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -c copy -tag:v hvc1 output.mp4