When you try to open a video in QuickTime It can give you following error. This is because the required component isn’t installed in QuickTime.
What you have to do is install the required component to play the video. For instance if you have multiple type of videos you need to install all the components.
Perian can help you to play almost all kinds of videos in QuickTime. Perian is a free, open source QuickTime component that adds native support for many popular video formats. It enables QuickTime to support following media types:
- AVI, FLV, and MKV file formats
- MS-MPEG4 v1 & v2, DivX, 3ivx, H.264, FLV/Sorenson Spark, FSV1, VP6, H263i, VP3, HuffYUV, FFVHuff, MPEG1 & MPEG2 Video, Fraps, Windows Media Audio v1 & v2, Flash ADPCM, Xiph Vorbis (in Matroska), and MPEG Layer II Audio
- AVI support for: AAC, AC3 Audio, H.264, MPEG4, and VBR MP3
- Subtitle support for SSA/ASS and SRT
You can download Perian from here. If you find it useful please consider donations to encourage futher development.
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