Media formats supported by QuickTime Player in Mac OS X v10.6
Summary
QuickTime Player in Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard is the default application for media playback on your Mac not handled by iTunes; it will attempt to open files with file extensions associated with audio or video formats.
Products Affected
QuickTime 7 (OS X), QuickTime X
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QuickTime Player can play media in the below file formats.
Video File Formats
- QuickTime Movie (.mov)
- MPEG-4 (.mp4, .m4v)
- MPEG-1
- 3GPP
- 3GPP2
- AVI
- DV
Audio File Formats
- iTunes Audio (.m4a, .m4b, .m4p)
- MP3
- Core Audio (.caf)
- AIFF
- AU
- SD2
- WAV
- SND
- AMR
The QuickTime Movie format supports audio or video tracks encoded using a variety of different codecs. QuickTime can play movies that use using the following codecs:
Video Codecs
- MPEG-4 (Part 2)
- H.264
- H.263
- H.261
- Apple ProRes
- Apple Pixlet
- Animation
- Cinepak
- Component Video
- DV
- DVC Pro
- Graphics
- Motion JPEG
- Photo JPEG
- Sorenson Video 2
- Sorenson Video 3
Audio Codecs
- AAC (MPEG-4 Audio)
- HE-AAC
- Apple Lossless
- MP3
- AMR Narrowband
- MS ADPCM
- QDesign Music 2
- Qualcomm PureVoice (QCELP)
- IMA 4:1
- MACE 3:1
- MACE 6:1
- ALaw 2:1
- ULaw 2:1
- 24-Bit Integer
- 32-Bit Integer
- 32-Bit Floating Point
- 64-Bit Floating Point
QuickTime can be expanded to utilize additional media formats other than those listed above by installing additional QuickTime components on your Mac. Click here for more information.