Video codec or components:MPEG-2 (OS X Lion or later), MPEG-4 (Part 2), H.264, H.263, H.261, Apple ProRes, Apple Pixlet, Animation, Cinepak, Component Video, DV, DVC Pro 50, Graphics, Motion JPEG, Photo JPEG, Sorenson Video 2, Sorenson Video 3Īudio formats:iTunes Audio (.m4a. m4v), MPEG-2 (OS X Lion or later), MPEG-1, 3GPP, 3GPP2, AVCHD (OS X Mountain Lion or later), AVI (Motion JPEG only), DV Video formats:QuickTime Movie (.mov), MPEG-4 (.mp4. The main reason is that DVD disc is not included in QuickTime supported format listed as below: However, even for people who have just install QuickTime 7 Pro on Mac El Capitan, they may still fail to play DVD movies with QuickTime player on Mac.
Sometimes, to prevent you previous DVD collection from strached, lost, stolen or otherwise useless, you may chose to play DVD movies on Mac with its default media player app - QuickTime player. Playing DVD movies on Mac can be pretty easy as long as there is an internal or external DVD optical drive and a built-in DVD player software on your Mac computer.
