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"standard" Mac video formats

jacksonpt

Turbo Monkey
Jul 22, 2002
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What video formats are supported on the typical off-the-shelf Mac? I assume .mov (quicktime) - anything else?

I need to put some vids on the web for work and I'm trying to figure out what formats to go with.

Thanks.
 

binary visions

The voice of reason
Jun 13, 2002
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Video formats don't really differ between systems. Macs even support WMV files... it's more about the video players than anything else.

MPG is fine.
 

kinghami3

Future Turbo Monkey
Jun 1, 2004
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Ballard 4 life.
Quicktime

.mov, mpg, MPEG-4, and H.264 are the most popular.

like BV said, WMV and RealPlayer will work just fine too, you just have to download those programs.

Others:
3DMF (Mac OS 9 & Windows)
3GPP
3GPP2
AIFF
AMC
AMR
Animated GIF
AU
Audio CD Data (Mac OS 9)
AVI
BMP
CAF (Mac OS X)
Cubic VR
DLS
DV
FlashPix*
FLC
GIF
GSM
JPEG/JFIF
Karaoke
MacPaint
Macromedia Flash 5
MIDI
MPEG-1
MP3 (MPEG-1, Layer 3)
M3U (MP3 Playlist files)
MPEG-2**
MPEG-4
MQV
M4A, M4B, M4P (iTunes 4 audio), M4V (iTunes video)
PDF (Mac OS X)
Photoshop*
PICS
PICT
PLS
PNG
Quartz Composer Composition (Mac OS X)
QCP (Mac OS 9 & Windows)
QuickTime Image File
QuickTime Movie
SD2 (Mac OS 9 & Windows)
SDP
SDV
SF2 (SoundFont 2)
SGI
SMIL
System 7 Sound (Mac OS 9)
Targa
Text
TIFF*
TIFF Fax
VDU (Sony Video Disk Unit)
Virtual Reality (VR)
Wave
 

jacksonpt

Turbo Monkey
Jul 22, 2002
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Vestal, NY
Video formats don't really differ between systems. Macs even support WMV files... it's more about the video players than anything else.

MPG is fine.
I know - but what formats can they play out of the box... what software do they come with? Can they play mpegs out of the box?