QuickTime supported video and audio formats

What video & audio formats are supported on QuickTime?

Supported Video Formats

• Apple Video
• Component video
• DV and DVC Pro NTSC
• DV PAL
• DV and DVC Pro NTSC
• DV PAL
• DVC Pro PAL
• DVC Pro PAL
• Component video
• H.261
• H.263
• H.264
• Microsoft Video 1 (decode only)
• MPEG-4 (Part 2)

Supported Audio Formats

• AAC (16 to 320 Kbps)
• Protected AAC (from iTunes Store)
• MP3 (16 to 320 Kbps)
• MP3 VBR
• Audible (formats 2, 3, and 4)
• Apple Lossless
• AIFF
• WAV

Other Video and Audio Options

If the video/movie files you want to view are in a format that is not supported by QuickTime, we strongly recommend you use VLC Media Player. It is a free and open source cross-platform media player supporting most audio and video formats (H.264, Ogg, DivX, MKV, TS, MPEG-2, mp3, MPEG-4, aac, ...) from files, physical media (DVDs, VCD, Audio-CD), TV capture cards and many network streaming protocols.

QuickTime Features

QuickTime is a multimedia framework developed by Apple Inc., capable of handling various formats of digital video, media clips, sound, text, animation, music, and interactive panoramic images. It is available for Mac OS classic, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows operating systems. QuickTime is integrated with Mac OS X, and it was an optional component at install for earlier versions of Mac OS. All Apple systems ship with QuickTime already installed. QuickTime for Windows systems is downloadable, either as a standalone installation or bundled with iTunes.

The QuickTime family of digital media creation, delivery and playback software lets you deliver live or pre-recorded video and audio to an audience of any size. When combined with QuickTime Player and QuickTime Pro, these applications work together to provide the industry’s first end-to-end, cross-platform, standards-based digital media delivery system.

QuickTime is available for Mac OS X and Windows operating systems, and is distributed free of charge. Some other free player applications that rely on the QuickTime framework provide features not available in the basic QuickTime Player. For example:

• iTunes can export audio in WAV, AIFF, MP3, AAC, and Apple Lossless.
• In Mac OS X, a simple AppleScript can be used to play a movie in full-screen mode.However, since version 7.2 the QuickTime Player now also supports full-screen viewing in the non-pro version.

Any application can be written to access features provided by the QuickTime framework.

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