What is QuickTime
QuickTime Player is a free multimedia player, which is the default media player to watch video/audio files on Mac and online. You can view many kinds of files via QuickTime Player, including audio, video, images, graphics, and virtual reality movies.
Types of Files QuickTime Supports
You can open (import) dozens of types of media with QuickTime. Some of the formats you can open in QuickTime include the following:
Video formats: MOV, MPEG-1, MPEG-2,MPEG-4, 3GPP, 3GPP2, JPEG, DV, Motion JPEG, AVI, MQV, H.264
Audio formats: AIFF/AIFC, Audio CD, CAF, MOV, MP3, MPEG-4, AU, WAV, iTunes audio
Still-image formats: BMP, GIF, JPEG/JFIF, JPEG 2000, PDF, MacPaint, PICT, PNG, Photoshop (including layers), SGI, Targa, FlashPix (including layers), TIFF (including layers)
Animation formats: Animated GIF, FLC, Flash, PICS
Other formats: KAR (Karaoke), MIDI, QuickDraw GX, QuickTime Image File, QuickTime VR, Text
Files Not Supported by QuickTime
Unfortunately, many popular video formats are not supported by QuickTime, such as AVI, MP4, FLV, WMV, MKV, and so on. Fair enough, other media player programs like Windows Media Player can't play QuickTime MOV files. We're facing these compatibility issues every day. This article will show to how to convert QuickTime video and vice versa.