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QuickTime only plays h.264/265 videos encoded in very specific ways, and a very limited set of other codecs. Most h.264/265 files in the wild, QuickTime won't
by crazygringo 2y ago
QuickTime only plays h.264/265 videos encoded in very specific ways, and a very limited set of other codecs.
Most h.264/265 files in the wild, QuickTime won't play. You have to repackage them with a couple of specific flags using ffmpeg.
QuickTime is great for playing videos produced by Apple devices, but terrible at playing media generally.
- al_borland 2y agoAh, I missed that Airflow was doing transcoding, that sounds like the primary benefit, and one of the big things I use Plex for. I will day, video formats seem to be much more standard (and compatible with QuickTime) than they were in the pre-h.264 days. Though I do tend to lean toward mp4 over mkv if given an option. I still have a second player around to handle stuff QuickTime fails on, but I only need it a few times per year.