I have received an error message that my quick time player cannot open my video as my video seems to be in a mov format, can you help me choose a format to open on my mac

I was trying to open a video I had saved in my mac, but received an error message that my video couldn't be opened with Quick Time in the format it was in, as far as I could tell the format it was in was mov.....does anyone know for format I need to change it to?

The examples of different format given were

• MPEG-2 (OS X Lion or later)
• MPEG-4 (Part 2)
• H.264
• H.263
• H.261
• Apple ProRes
• Apple Pixlet
• Animation
• Cinepak
• Component Video
• DV
• DVC Pro 50
• Graphics
• Motion JPEG
• Photo JPEG
• Sorenson Video 2
• Sorenson Video 3