MPlayerOSX impresses by playing virtually any video file. Handbrake or pavtube for example.There are few Mac applications that can compete with VLC Player when it comes to playing video but MPlayerOSX is a very decent attempt to do so. I guess there is no workaround other than transcoding the video with a non-quicktime based engine, like ffmpeg or ffmbc. QuickTime X no longer has this limitation. Read the section on scaling for a workaround. This also means that the i8x8 option will have no effect, since it requires 8x8dct.Īspect ratio: QuickTime 7 does not support SAR (sample aspect ratio) information in MPEG-4 files it assumes that SAR=1.

This option (8x8dct) is off by default, so just be sure not to explicitly enable it. Macroblocks: QuickTime 7 does not support 8x8 DCT macroblocks. This means that b_pyramid and weight_b will have no effect, since they require bframes to be greater than 1. If you encode your video with features that QuickTime 7 does not support, QuickTime-based players will show you a pretty white screen instead of your expected video.ī-frames: QuickTime 7 supports a maximum of 1 B-frame, i.e. QuickTime's support for H.264 is limited, so you will need to drop some advanced features. While searching for some other stuff I found this piece of info taken from: The sooner everyone else ditches 20+ year old QuickTime the better. If VLC plays it fine, you know it's a QuickTime issue.Īvid getting rid of QuickTime is the best move they've ever made. Does VLC play it on a Mac? I wouldn't necessarily put it down to H.264/AVC from Windows to Mac doesn't work, I do it all the time, more that the MainConcept encoder used by Adobe has something that the now outdated QuickTime doesn't like. Lion has QT 10.1 which does have some improvements. Only thing I can get to work is that MacX Video convertor. How Lion is better at AVC codecs from a PC made video is a mystery to me. It must be that the computers are on OS X 10.6.8.

So doesn't appear to be bad files, but PC->MAC AVC. Same error I get with 3 different videos from 3 different editors. When I save in QTX it tells me that there is an error in the timeline. Every single thing resulted in a white movie file. I downloaded the H264 codec link that Tom posted, I tried Saving in QTX, I tried exporting as an Image sequence. I tried everything suggested in this thread. Ok, today I got another film from a PC using Premier CS6, AVC coding.

Vlc for mac os x 10.3.3