What Video File Formats Are Compatible with and Supported by MacBook/iMac/Mac Pro/Mac mini?
What video format do ALL macs have? I'm creating a powerpoint presentation and am converting it to video to be played on computers so that powerpoint doesn't need to be installed on clients computers. Thank you!
Indeed, as WMV is for windows, the very native video for a Mac computer is MOV. You can import video files like MOV, QT, MPEG-4, M4V, H.264, 3GP, MP3, AAC, etc to QuickTime Player. And MOV is the most common one. Since QuickTime Player is the default player for all Mac desktop and notebook types, be it iMac, Mac Mini, MacBook or Mac Pro, the video formats supported by QuickTime will also be compatible with Mac computer running OS X v10.6.x or later, or even the latest macOS Mojave.
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Mac Video Audio Formats & Codecs Supported
- Mac Supported Video File Formats
QuickTime Movie (.mov), MPEG-4 (.mp4, .m4v), MPEG-2 (OSX 10.0-10.6 are exclusive), MPEG-1, 3GPP, 3GPP2, AVCHD (OSX 10.0-10.7 are exclusive), AVI ((Motion JPEG only), DV; - Mac Supported Video Codecs
MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264, H.263 H.261, Apple ProRes, Apple Pixlet, Animation, Cinepak, Component Video, DV, DVC Pro 50, Graphics, Motion JPEG, Photo JPEG, Sorenson Video 2, Sorenson Video 3, H.263, H.261, Apple ProRes, Apple Pixlet, Animation, Cinepak, Component Video, DV, DVC Pro 50, Graphics, Motion JPEG, Photo JPEG, Sorenson Video 2, Sorenson Video 3 - Mac Supported Audio File Formats
M4A, m4b, .m4p (all are iTunes audio), MP3, Core Audio (.caf), AIFF, AU, SD2, WAV, SND, AMR - Mac Supported Audio Codecs
AAC, HE-AAC, Apple Lossless,MP3, AMR Narrowband, MS ADPCM, QDesign Music 2, Qualcomm PureVoice (QCELP), IMA 4:1, MACE 3:1 (Mac OS X 10.6.x only), MACE 6:1 (Mac OS X 10.6.x only), ALaw 2:1, ULaw 2:1, Integer (24-bit, 32-bit), Floating Point (32-Bit,64-Bit)
What Are the Best Video Formats for Mac Computer?
Not all Mac supported video formats can be called the best video formats for Mac, but the following three surely can:
• MOV: Using the special compression algorithm developed by Apple's Mac, MOV is a very common multimedia format often used for saving movies and other video files, compatible with both Macintosh and Windows platforms. It is the born video format for QuickTIme of Mac.
• MP4: MP4, as an abbreviated term for MPEG-4 Part 14, is an international standard that has more support. It is a container format, allowing a combination of audio, video, subtitles and still images to be held in the one single file. It also allows for advanced content such as 3D graphics, menus and user interactivity. MP4 files are supported by many video programs and various hardware devices, Sony PSP and various DVD players, most DirectShow/Video for Windows codec packs.
• M4V: M4V video file format is developed by Apple Inc., who uses it to flag as a video file and attach it to iTunes, by encoding TV episodes, movies, and music videos in the iTunes Store under official DRM copy protection; therefore, put it in other way, the copy-protected Apple video using FairPlay DRM copyright protection on the basis of MPEG-4 AVC video compression. It can be played directly by QuickTime Player, VLC, RealPlayer, DAPlayer, MPayer and some other HD video players.
But please note that both the MOV and MP4 container formats can use the same MPEG-4 formats, so almost they are interchangeable in a QuickTime-only environment.
How to Make Mac Supports More Videos?
Indeed, the supported video formats of Mac QuickTime can be extended by use of some third-party codec plug-ins. But perhaps you need to install a pile of such components one by one to make it more supportive. And in many cases, users are afraid of the adware and malware. So there is another once-and-for-all way to make all kinds of videos playable on MacBook, iMac, MacMini and Mac Pro running even on macOS Mojave (10.14) or lower, no matter what version of OS it is running – by converting AVI (DivX, Xvid), MPEG,WMV, AVCHD, MTS/M2TS, VOB, FLV, RM, RMVB, WebM, Google TV, 3GP, etc to Mac supported videos with the best Mac video converter in the following procedure.
A. If you want to convert videos on Mac, just download VideoProc for Mac on any type of Mac computer;
B. If you want to convert videos existing on your Windows to Mac videos, just download VideoProc on PC.
Their operations of converting one video to Mac accept one work in the same way. Here please allow me to take converting MTS to Mac supported video M4V as an illustration:
Step 1: Click '+Video' button, browse in the computer, find an MKV file as the source video, click Open and start importing it;
Step 2: Navigate to video target format section, where you can choose either M4V (H.264) or MOV/MP4 Video (MPEG4/H264) as the output format and click OK. You can choose among LQ, standard and HQ when double click the format to pop up a parameters control;
Step 3: Hit RUN button on the right to start convert the video to be Mac compatible.
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What can I do if I need to shift my videos from Windows to Mac?
Convert MKV, M2TS, AVI, WMV, ASF and so on to MOV or any Mac supported formats with VideoProc on Windows PC, and transfer the videos to Mac. Similarly, you can move these video files to your Mac at first step, and then convert them to Mac videos with the help of VideoProc for Mac.
Will my PC play the Mac videos, or vice versa?
Answer: Many windows computers will play mov videos, but some fail and need a plug-in to do it. The most universal codec there is would be avi-xvid. Granted this is more intel than mac, but mac will play it. This is your best idea for a cross platform, go with AVI, open the QT Player> Edit > QT Preferences> File types.
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What format to make my powerpoint presentation compatible with my Mac?
As explained above, MOV, MP4 (H.264) and M4V are the most recommended formats for Mac. VideoProc (for Windows) or VideoProc for Mac will help you convert all incompatible videos to be Mac supported videos with suitable specifications.
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ffdshow is a good codec, but it is not updated for a long time - the latest version was released in September, 2014 therefore today it became already morally outdated. It seems that developers decided to stop its development. It is sad.
Here's my problem: sd mpeg2 video (interlaced content) playback with yadif 2x fps enabled has an issue: somewhere between the second half and bottom of the screen, there's a horizontal line which is quite annoying, especially on fast-moving scenes. I tried everything on two different laptops (lenovo g 50-70 and a 5000 series dell).. most likely it's a software issue, combined with the newer generations of intel hd graphics. And I also found something: under the output tab, there's that option called 'set interlaced flag in output media type'and if man rolls the mouse over it, that's what it says: 'enabling ffdshow internal deinterlacing will automatically disable this option to avoid video being deinterlaced twice.' But for me it seems like that's the cause of that horizontal line appearing, looks to me like that option gets 'in behind' enabled when I enable yadif 2x. Can somebody look into this please? or is there another option I didn't know about? Otherwise, great decoding tool :)
After pulling my hair out trying to get a game to work, this software did the trick.(was missing a codec)
FFDshow has been a stable, clean, and *fast* codec library for many years. No tricks. No adverts. Just *great* codecs.