This article will help you to convert FLV files to Quicktime on Mac. And even though FLV is immensely fruitful in streaming videos across the internet, in stunning standards, QuickTime for Mac computers does not support it. You must be well aware by now that the extension QuickTime file is MOV and so to run this FLV on QuickTime player. If QuickTime fails to play your MOV file, then it is possible that your application is obsolete and no longer supported. The media player may not be able to read the digital video because the technology that was used to encode it was recently developed. When in that condition, make sure to update your QuickTime player to the newest version.

I paid for and downloaded But I play them back on Quicktime Player which has.mp4 at the top of its list of playable formats. I complained to Metrodome / YouTube who promptly refunded me, but with a variety of explanations: • I would need to take up any download problems with the 'platform' but, subsequently: • 'YouTube paid content is for online streaming and cannot be downloaded' and that..

• 'paid content uses slightly different technology unlike free videos', but that.. • 'paid movies and TV shows can be saved for offline viewing on your Android, iOS or Chromebook device' provided there is a 'Play Movies & TV App on your device'. Then, finally.. • 'Any issues with playback should be addressed to Google'. - I take it that 'Google' here is the 'platform' referred to in the first item above.. But, despite them saying it can't be done, the Metrodome site allowed me to and I did download the video, in.mp4 format.

I don't understand. I don't use any of the Android, etc, options. And I would rather have the thing on my computer than have to go online for it every time I wanted to play it. I would be grateful to anyone who an put me straight about all this. Not having had your problem let me wildly speculate for paragraphs as an excuse to avoid real, actual work..

That may solve all of your viewing problems and you can ignore the rest of this. And, frankly, it tends to play better than QuickTime.

Safe and reliable. If it does not it may have to do with copyright protection, and I defer to others on that note. That being blathered, I do not download paid videos from Youtube. The few free ones I do will either be that format or flv. This is why I suspect a copyright block.

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However, I find the newest--now rather old --QuickTime 10.2 does not play everything well. It is 'bloatware' in my opinion and you cannot edit with it--'Oh but use iMovie and Final Cut Ultra-Pro' yeah.. I saved and regularly used the ancient QuickTime 7.6.6 with the installed MPEG 2 codec you had to buy back in the Stone Age! Which pretty much plays anything. If you have that and THAT does not play the video, I would suggest trying VLC.

Hi, MP4 is a container format like AVI and MOV. So, if your MP4 file is encoded with the codecs that are not supported by QuickTime, you can't play it on QuickTime. If you still want to use QuickTime to play it, you might need to check which codec component you should install to make it work on QuickTime. Maybe you can try use another video player to play it, like Macgo Free Media Player. Minecraft memory allocation for 2012 mac mini.

Another chance is converting MP4 file to QuickTime supported codec using the third party conversion software.