Basically, the release of the Mavericks macOS marked the end of active support for a wide range of "legacy" codecs which were previously "turned off" by default with the release of the Lion/Mountain Lion macOS in preparation of separating the QTX (closed codec support for "modern" codecs only) and QT7 (open codec support for legacy and Apple/third-party proprietary codecs) structures embedded in Mavericks and later operating systems. Video can be decoded to RGB (A) formats for playback in any existing application, or. The Hap QuickTime codec supports encoding and decoding Hap video. For general information about Hap, see the Hap project.
This is the home of the Hap QuickTime codec. In the former case the files probably won't play in any media player and in the latter case, the files should continue to play in the QT7 Player app as long as the required codecs are still available on your system. Hap is a video codec for fast decompression on modern graphics hardware. If the files won't play in VLC, then the MOV files are most likely either corrupt or were created using a "legacy" Apple proprietary compression format.
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Any suggestions on how to get these files to play? They won't play in VLC either. MOV file I have - when I open it in Quicktime - is forced into 'conversion' mode. The software you are using probably isn't looking for the ability to play the video, but looking for QuickTime specifically.
The short answer is to simply allow the QTX player to convert the files to a compatible compression format and keep the newly created file for playback thereafter.ĮVERY. How do I get Quicktime to play MOV files?