What video formats does it support?

Question

What video formats does QuickTime support?

Answer 1

Although QuickTime doesn't have a wide range of video formats it can play, there are a few supported ones as listed below:

• QuickTime Movie (.mov)
• MPEG-4 (.mp4, .m4v)
• MPEG-2 (OS X Lion or later)
• MPEG-1
• 3GPP
• 3GPP2
• AVCHD (OS X Mountain Lion or later)
• AVI (Motion JPEG only)
• DV

These are the official video formats supported by the QuickTime player. The official page provides additional information about this: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201290