QuickTime Complete User Guide

Brief Introduction to QuickTime

QuickTime Player is a free media player application developed by Apple.Inc, and it’s available for Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows operating systems. It supports various video and audio formats, providing you an entertaining multimedia experience with “crystal clear” picture and “really good” sound effect.

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Formats supported by QuickTime:

  • Video: MP4, MOV, M4V, 3GP, 3G2
  • Audio: AIFF, WAV, MOV, MP4 (AAC only), CAF and AAC/ADTS
  • Codec Supported by QuickTime: H.264, H.263, MPEG-4, MPEG-1

Note: There is a free AVI plug-in, so you can install it to add Xvid codec for playing AVI files. If you want to export the AVI file to your portable devices like iPod, you need a conversion tool. You can refer to the third part of this article for more details about conversion.


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QuickTime X

The up-coming Snow Leopard will adopt QuickTime X with some enhanced new features. Circulating rumors about new features include trim function, which used to be available only for QuickTime Pro; capture pictures and audio through camera and microphone. The most significant improvement is that this QuickTime X supports online video playing. But that is all. This brand-new QuickTime can’t help you download videos from the internet. You can use a third-party application to download videos from the internet. iSkysoft free Video Downloader for Mac is a free application and it works well. Want to sync the downloaded files to your portable devices like iPod? The commercial version of this application supports video conversion.

Common problems with QuickTime


Easy Solution to Frequently Asked Questions: