Play H.265 Files with QuickTime Player on Mac

QuickTime player not play H.265 files

H.265 is a new compression standard which offers better quality at even smaller file size than H.264 video. Although there are many software options out there can playback H.265 encoded files, however, for Mac users, you may be disappointed to find that you can't get H.265 played with QuickTime Player, the default free video player app that is bundled on every Mac.

"Does apple quicktime support h.265 on the mac I've been editing a video and just finished it and encoded it from h.264 to h.265 but when I play it back on quicktime it doesn't go through any suggestions."

Mac support for H.265 files

The fact is that currently, you can only use VLC to play H.265 on Mac. For those people who insist on playing H.265 files with QuickTime player, the best solution is transcoding H.265 to QuickTime Player readable file formats such as AVI, DV Stream, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, QuickTime Movie, etc.

Convert H.265 for QuickTime player

To convert H.265 to QuickTime Player, you can download the best H.265 Converter for Mac - Pavtube Video Converter for Mac, which has full support for both 4K and HD H.265 video with either MP4 or MKV container file format. Thanks to its batch conversion mode, you can load multiple H.265 video at one time for conversion to QuickTime Player readable file formats listed above.

To get better output video and audio quality, click "Settings" on the main interface to open "Profile Settings", here, you can flexibly choose or specify exactly the profile parameters including video codec, resolution, bit rate, frame rate, audio codec, bit rate, sample rate, channels, etc as you like to get better output video and audio quality.

Step by Step to Convert H.265 to QuickTime Player on Mac

Step 1: Add H.265 files.

Download the free trial version of the program. Launch it on your computer. Click "File" menu and select "Add Video/Audio" or click the "Add Video" button on the top tool bar to import source H.265 video files into the program.

Load H.265 files

Step 2: Choose output file format.

Clicking the Format bar, from its drop-down list, select QuickTime Player playable "MOV - QuickTime(*.mov)" under "Common Video" main category.

Output QuickTime player supported file formats

Tips: Click "Settings" on the main interface to open "Profile Settings" window, here, you can flexibly choose or specify exactly the profile parameters including video codec, resolution, bit rate, frame rate, audio codec, bit rate, sample rate, channels, etc as you like to get better output video and audio quality.

Step 3: Start H.265 to QuickTime player conversion process.

After all setting is completed, hit the "Convert" button at the right bottom of the main interface to begin the conversion process from H.265 to QuickTime Player compatible file format conversion process.

When the conversion is finished, click "Open Output Folder" icon on the main interface to open the folder with generated files. Then feel free to play converted files on QuickTime player.

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