HT201290: If QuickTime Player can't open an audio or video file
Learn about If QuickTime Player can't open an audio or video file
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Feb 7, 2014 8:52 AM in response to Jovas8by Timothy Fink,Have you simply tried to open them in QuickTime? The new QT has a built-in conversion for those old codecs it recognizes and will turn them into updated formats it will prefer.
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Feb 7, 2014 9:00 AM in response to Timothy Finkby Jovas8,it tries to convert them but then says quick time player cant open it & then gives me an option to tell me more but doesnt tell me how to convert it
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Feb 7, 2014 10:00 AM in response to Jovas8by Eustace Mendis,There is an app called Filp4Mac. You have to pay for the App itself, but the player is free.
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Feb 7, 2014 10:38 AM in response to Jovas8by cbs20,Use VLC media player to play the codecs that Quicktime doesn't support.
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Feb 18, 2014 12:14 AM in response to Jovas8by Hadesuer,If you just want to move these avi and mkv files to play on iMac, you can download VLC player, it plays just every file format.
For converting files to Mac readable format, I use this one all the time:
http://www.appgeeker.com/how-to/convert-avi-to-mp4-mac.html
It supports handling multiple files at a time. one of my cameras record in .AVI format and i bulk convert to .mp4 or h264.