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One of the drawbacks to using iOS is that it only supports limited video formats for playback. There’s plenty of tools available for Mac OS X allowing you to convert files to a format that iOS.
Apple apps such as QuickTime Player, Photos, and Keynote work with many kinds of audio and video formats. Some apps prefer specific formats, but QuickTime movie files (.mov), most MPEG files (.mp4, .m4v, .m4a, .mp3, .mpg), some AVI and WAV files, and many other formats usually work in most apps without additional software.
Older or specialized media formats might not work in your app, because the format requires software designed to support it. If that happens, your app won't open the file or won't play back its audio or video.
How to search for an app that works with your file
You might already have an app that supports the format of your file. If you don't know which of your installed apps to try, your Mac might be able to suggest one:
- Control-click (or right-click) the file in the Finder.
- From the shortcut menu that opens, choose Open With. You should see a submenu listing all of the other installed apps that your Mac thinks might be able to open the file.
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If none of your installed apps can open the file, search the Internet or Mac App Store for apps that can play or convert the file:
- Include the name of the media format in your search. To find the format, select the file and press Command-I to open an Info window. The format might appear after the label Kind, such as ”Kind: Matroska Video File.”
- Include the filename extension in your search. The extension is the letters shown at the end of the file's name, such as .avi,.wmv, or .mkv.
Learn more
- QuickTime Player (version 10.0 and later) in OS X Mavericks through macOS Mojave converts legacy media files that use certain older or third-party compression formats.
- Learn about incompatible media in Final Cut Pro X and iMovie.
If you ask a vlogger, who has amassed a lot of money by making interesting videos and uploading them on the Youtube, which type of computer they use for editing the videos, they will start praising their Macbook non-stop. The powerful hardware of any Mac computer easily surpasses those of the usual Windows and Linux computers and makes video editing a brisk and easy job. And now you can use the popular FFMPEG media encoder on your Mac using the ffmpegX.
ffmpegX is a GUI frontend for the three powerful command line tools available mainly for the Linux users. This graphic user interface uses FFMPEG, MPEG2ENC and MENCODER to provide you with more than 20 powerful open-source video and audio processing tools. FFMPEG is the popular media encoder, MPEG2ENC is MPEG 2 encoder and multiplexer and MENCODER is the MPEG 4 encoder with support for the subtitles.
Using ffmpegX is very easy. You can just drop the source media file on the ffmpegX and it will scan the file to find media information about it like the video and audio codecs used by the source media. You can then choose the codecs for the target media format either using the quick preset or through the various tabs. More customization can be selected through all the different options like filters. For example, you can add subtitles file (.srt or .sub files) from the Filters tab.
After this you simply have to click on the Encode button and it will start encoding the file. In a few seconds the format of the media file will be converted and it will be available in the destination folder that you have selected. The application makes use of the all the resources available on your Mac to transcode the files as fast as possible.
Conclusion: ffmpegX is a very easy to use media encoder and multiplexer tool that is powered by the popular FFMPEG project. Using it is as easy as dropping a file and hitting the “Encode” button.
You can download ffmpegX from http://www.ffmpegx.com/.