Q: My MacBook Pro with Mountain Lion can't play a video from an iPhone--on four different players. What could be wrong ?
My MacBook Pro with Mountain Lion can't play a video that originated from my niece. She made it on her iPhone, emailed to my sister's Android phone, and then my sister emailed it to me. I downloaded the email from my ISP. I tried playing it on three different players on my Mac. I tried Quick Time, VLC, and Roxio Video Player, and all of them said something like, "This is not a movie file." The files says, IMG_5376.MOV 3.4 MB. I tried opening it in iMovie, but the title was grayed out. What could be wrong ? My guess is that the file was damaged somewhere along the way. I haven't had much trouble playing videos on my Mac.
MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2), 2 Ghz Intel core i7
Posted on Feb 4, 2013 2:01 PM