Showing posts with label Quicktime. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Quicktime. Show all posts

Monday, April 17, 2017

Does Apple QuickTime Player support h.265 on Mac OS Sierra/El Capitan?

H.265 or High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) is the latest generation video compression standard which compresses a video file into smaller package, making it easier to store or transmit. Today is the turn of HEVC. However, many devices and applications like QuickTime player are still need time to support the new codec. Do you have some HEVC/H.265 files saved on your computer, and wonder how to make H.265 files playable in QuickTime player on Mac OS Sierra/El Capitan? You’ve come to the right place.

Since QT player can work with H.264 MP4, MOV, M4V videos well, to get H.265 files playable in QuickTime Player, a quick fix is to convert H.265 to QT Player readable format for playback easily.

One of the best Yosemite/Mavericks H.265 Converter from the market so far is Pavtube iMedia Converter for Mac, which is recentlyupgraded to support H.265 encoding and decoding and it can be taken as a completely professional H.265/HEVC encoder, decoder, player and editor.

With it, you can convert H.265 to QuickTime player friendly H.264 MP4, MOV, M4V video on Mac OS Sierra/El Capitan with quality loss effortlessly. And it is available to customize the output resolutions to any size the users want and edit video file with trim, crop, add watermark, insert subtitles, split, merge and other options before conversion. What’s more, it also supports convert non-H.265 video files to H.265 for storage and playback. Download the program and move on to see how to convert H.265 videos for QuickTime player on Mac OS Sierra/El Capitan .

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Tutorial: Converting H.265/HEVC to QuickTime player friendly format

Step 1. Add H.265 source

Install and run this best H.265 Video Converter. Click add button to import the H.265 files to the program.

Windows Video to Mac Mini Converter

Step 2. Choose QuickTime Player friendly format

Click the Format menu, select QuickTime Player friendly format as your output video format. There, you can take H.264 MP4, M4V, MOV as your output video format.

Choose Quicktime MOV Format

Tip: In case the default settings do not fit your requirement, you can click “Settings” button and enter “Profile Settings” panel to adjust video size, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate and audio channels.

Adjust QT MOV profile settings

Step 3. Start conversion

Finally click the Convert button to begin encoding H.265 to QuickTime player format.

After the short conversion, go to the output folder and drop the converted files into QuickTime player. Once all this is done, add your converted videos to QuickTime player.

Additional Tip:

Want to find another solution to play H.265(HEVC) videos? Just get the best QuickTime Alternative for Yosemite/Mavericks.

Here is a list of the top 2 options:

1. DivX Player

DivX player is another robust HEVC video file player. It is an award winning software that offers HEVC playback. It offers high-quality playback of movies, TV shows. It supports almost all the popular formats like AVI, DIVX, MKV, MP4 and more. By using its DivX Media Server one can stream music, video and photos to any DLNA-compatible device at home like PS3, XBOX, or Samsung Galaxy line of product. With the Stream To feature in player user can also control which device they can stream their videos to.

2. VLC Media Player

Another player that can play HEVC file is the VLC Media Player, which is a free and open source player and framework. It supports a wide range of multimedia files. It can also play DVDs and various streaming protocols.

Now you can experience the H.265/HEVC videos on your QuickTime Player on Mac OS Sierra/El Capitan  freely!

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Encode/Decode H.265 video for iPhone/iPad/Apple TV on Mac

Tuesday, September 1, 2015

Best way to play DVD on QuickTime

Watch Internet video, HD movie trailers, and personal media clips. Whether it’s on the web or on your desktop, QuickTime Player brings your digital media brilliantly to life. But currently QuickTime does not support DVD file, which has become a big trouble for DVD lovers. How to play various DVDs on QuickTime? Take it easy, this article will tell you the best method.

Commercial DVDs are encrypted and only special DVD player software can open and display them. It's a pity that even your own (not encrypted) DVDs couldn't be played by QuickTime Player. Among QuickTime supported video formats, MOV is the most commonly used one. Therefore, faced with this problem, what you need to do is to convert DVD to QuickTime playable format first.

iFastime Video Converter Ultimate for Mac here we're going to use is a simple piece of software that generally works the way you'd want it to. It allows you to remove protection easily and convert DVD to  QuickTime friendly MOV format on Mac with good quality. DVD to MOV Converting speed is fast and the video & audio quality is amazing. 

Besides, the ultimate DVD ripper software capable of ripping the content of DVDs to a wide range of mainstream video formats, such as DVD to AVI, MP4, MPEG, WMV, MOV, FLV, AVC, TS, MTS, M4V, etc. Users can also painlessly rip DVD to iPhone 6/6 Plus/6S, iPad Pro / iPad Plus / iPad Air 3, iPod Touch 4/5/6, Android, Samsung Note 5Samsung Galaxy Tab S2, Microsoft, Surface Tab, Xbox, Apple TV, Sony PSP, PS4, etc for better playing. You can read review to learn more.

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How to Make DVD videos playback on QuickTime

Step 1: Insert your DVD to your Mac DVD drive and click Load DVD button to load the movies from your DVD discs. You can also import ISO files, IFO, DVD Folders.



Step 2: Set output video format as MOV - QuickTime(*.mov) under Format > Common Video.



Tip: Before conversion, you can click the Settings icon and adjust the video bitrate, codec, frame rate, audio sample rate, etc parameters.



Step 3: Finally, tap the "Star conversion" button at the bottom right corner to start the DVD to QuickTime conversion. After the conversion, you can get the encoded files under "Open" panel. Import the converted MOV files to play in QuickTime.

Now you can play DVD videos in QuickTime Player anytime anywhere without freely. So easy way, just have a try!

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Friday, August 14, 2015

How to open MP4 files produced OBS in Quicktime?

If you have a deeper understanding of Open Broadcaster Software, you should know some of the stringent requirements, encoding using H264 (x264) and AAC, which is one more important requirement. When you record MP4 videos with OBS, the MP4 videos should be encoded with H.264 . However, H.264 codec can’ t be accepted by Quicktime, so it is failing for you to play MP4 files produced OBS in Quicktime. In that case, when you open MP4 files created OBS in Quicktime, only get “the format of the video would be unknown”, “the sound plays fine, but the video doesn’t work”,“that the file is damaged”, and other situations.





To solve the above mentioned troubles effectively, you'd better transcode MP4 videos to MOV(which is the default format of Mac OS X and performs optimum compatibility with QuickTime).

If you're looking for the most useful and simplest MP4 to Quicktime Converter tool for Mac, iFastime Video Converter Ultimate for Mac is the perfect one for you. As the best program to change MP4 to QuickTime MOV on Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan, 10.10 Yosemite, 10.9 Mavericks, etc. It also can convert other video formats such as DVD, Blue-ray, AVI, WMV, MKV, VOB, FLV, MPG, RMVB, MOV, 3GP to MOV to successfully play on QuickTime, iMovie, iTunes, iPhone 6 Plus, iPad Air 2, VLC, etc.

Here the detailed steps to change MP4 files to Quicktime friendly format on Mac are described. 

Just download and install this powerful software.

          

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Note:

The way to complete the conversion in Windows (Windows 10, 8.7, 8) is almost the same. Please download fromiFastime Video Converter Ultimate.

How to change MP4 files to Quicktime friendly format for playing?

Step 1. Add MP4 files to this Mac MP4 to MOV converter

Go to "File" menu, select “Load Files”option to import the MP4 files. Or you can directly add MP4 videos to the program with drag and drop method.



Tips: This smart converter provides a video editor that lets you touch up your videos in clicks. Simply click the Edit button to open the video editing window, where you can crop videos, trim video, add watermarks, adjust video effects, etc. for getting better visual effect.

Step 2. Select “MOV” as the output format

In the “Format” tray, go to "Common video" tab and select "MOV- Quicktime" as output format. If you want to put the output file on your iPad, iPhone (iPhone 6S included), iPod, Apple TV or other popular portable devices, you can select an output format according to your device name! Audio formats is also supplied by the smart Mac MP4 to MOV converter.



Tips: click settings button to adjust the output video’s parameters, such as bitrate, size, frame rate,r etc.


Step 3. Start MP4 to MOV Mac conversion

When all the settings are done, click the green arrow convert button to start converting MP4 to MOV on Mac. The conversion time depends on your source MOV video. Generally, if the original videos are not too large, the conversion will finish soon.

Once the conversion to be done and then you'll get high quality MP4 videos. Now open the converted MP4 files with QuickTime Player by using the usual File --> Open menu item. To start the import process, just choose File --> Import.

After that, you can play them with QuickTime with no hassle. Have a try!