Discovering QuickTime

QuickTime Player allows you to watch, create, and share movie files in Mountain Lion. To open QuickTime Player, go to the Applications folder and double-click its icon.

Playing back video and audio files

QuickTime Player can open and play back video and audio of various formats.

Video formats supported are:

bullet.tif QuickTime Movie (.mov extension)

bullet.tif MPEG-4 (.mp4 or .m4v)

bullet.tif MPEG-1

bullet.tif 3GPP

bullet.tif 3GPP2

bullet.tif AVI

bullet.tif DV

Audio formats supported include:

bullet.tif iTunes Audio (.m4a, .m4p, and .m4b)

bullet.tif MP3

bullet.tif AIFF

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