Two Ways to Solve “Can’t Play WMV on QuickTime” issues

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Outline: It’s always not easy to play WMV (Windows Media Video) files with QuickTime player, What’s the matter? Why can’t QuickTime play AVI videos? Just read on to find the reason and two solutions to solve your problems without any trouble.

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WMV (Windows Media Video) is a very popular video format which is widely used today. If you have a lot of WMV movie files and want to play them on QuickTime, you’d better convert WMV to QuickTime compatible format – MOV format. Due to QuickTime is not a universal media player for Windows or Mac computer. Natively, it supports only a few video formats: 3G2, 3GP, DV, MOV, and various MPEG options, including MP4. So how to play (Windows Media Video) WMV in QuickTime player?

Fortunately, Hivimoore shares two solutions for you.

1. Free Convert WMV to MOV for QuickTime
2. Paid Convert WMV to MOV for QuickTime

Solution 1: Free Convert WMV to MOV for QuickTime

You can install Handbrake and MPEG Streamclip applications, this is how I found to do it.

Step 1. Open Handbrake.com, free download, install and run it on your computer. Then load your WMV files to the program, and choose MP4 as output format. Lastly, convert the WMV file to MP4.

For Windows Vista to 10

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For Mac OS X 10.6 to 10.12

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Step 2. Using MPEG Streamclip, convert the resulting MP4 to MOV (the process can take considerable time depending on your movie size/length) NOTE: Last update to the software was in 2012. So be aware that it may or may not work well on your system.

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There are other free converters out there too that can convert MP4 to MOV. But this 2 step process is what I found to be effective.

Testing with a WMV file duration of 2m:18s:

• WMV original size: 7.2 MB
• MP4 converted size: 9.7 MB
• MOV resulting size: 14.8 MB

Solution 2: Paid Convert WMV to MOV for QuickTime

This is a simple, safe and fast solution: just download the top WMV to QuickTime Converter from Hivimoore.com, a convenient video conversion application for Windows or Mac, include the latest Windows 10 and macOS Sierra, and change the format of your WMV videos to QuickTime MOV with 30X faster conversion speed with zero quality loss. Also, you can just as easily convert QuickTime movies to any other video format for various players, devices and other applications.

1. It helps convert common WMV files to MOV in SD/HD/4K/3D with just three simple steps.
2. It helps convert DRM-pretected WMV files from Amazon to MOV in SD/HD/4K/3D with just three simple steps.
3. It helps convert MOV to WMV in SD/HD/3D with just three simple steps.
4. In addition to MOV, it converts WMV videos to more than 1000 formats, including H.265 MP4/MKV, HD MP4, AVI, FLV, VOB, TS, M4V, MKV, MPG as well as common various videos etc.
5. Besides WMV, it can also convert other videos to MOV, including AVI to MOV, MKV to MOV, VOB to MOV, MPG to MOV, MP4 to MOV, M4V to MOV, H.265 to MOV, etc.
6. Edit your WMV or MOV files before or after convertinsag them. It provides with built-in editing tools, like Trim, Crop, Subtitle, Watermark, etc.
7. Adjust parameter settings according to your requirements.
8. Extract audio from your WMV or MOV video files as MP3, WAV, WMA, AC3, AAC, FLAC, M4A, MKA, DTS, OGG, AIFF, etc.
9. Convert WMV to QuickTime, iPhone, iPad and other devices with the optimized presets.
10. Download online videos or burn your WMV/MOV videos to DVD as you wish.

Tip: Wondershare Filmora X (originally Video Editor) is a video editing tool that enables you to With edit WMV video to your desired effect.

See how easy it is with this step-by-step guide.

Steps to Convert WMV to QuickTime mov with 30x faster & original quality

Step 1. Free downlaod the application on your computer, install and launch it.

 

 

Go to Wondershare UniConverter for Mac

Step 2. Add WMV video files to the program

Open the converter, you’ll have two ways to add WMV files into the program. One is dragging and dropping the files directly, and the other is clicking the Add Files button in the main interface to select WMV files.

Note: This app offers function of bacth conversion, you are allowed to convert several WMV files to MOV files at one go.

Step 3. Set MOV (QuickTime) as the output format.
Click the down arrow button beside the Output Format option, select the Video tab to choose MOV in the left sidebar, and select the video resolution to confirm output format.

If you are planning to transfer the converted files to your iOS devices like iPad, iPhone or iPod etc. you can choose the presets supplied by the professional Video Converter so that you needn’t set the resolution, frame rate etc. by yourself. And the presets are contained in “Device”>”Apple” category.

Optional:

1. If you are demanding in high quality, you can adjust parameter settings to improve output video quliaty. The first one is to select codec as “H.264” rather than “MPEG-4”, cuz H.264 is known as MPEG-4 Part 10 – Advanced Video Coding (MPEG-4 AVC), providing much higher quality than MPEG-4.
2. Turn up Frame Rate to 25fps or 30fps to guarantee a sharper image for output video.
3. Adjust Resolution up, how about 1920x1080p or 1920x1200p? And you can even increase resolution to 4K Ultra HD or 8K Ultra HD based on your original WMV video quality. Certainly, you choose High Quality and you will lose comparatively faster speed, for you can’t have cake and eat it.

Step 4. Begin Windows Media Player WMV to QuickTime .MOV conversion

Hit on the Start All button and leave the WMV video to MOV video converter finish the rest automatically. You can find the converted MOV files from the Finished tab. If your WMV video files is quite large, around 1GB and over 1 hour in length, don’t be worried, the whole WMV to QuikcTime MOV conversion will not cost your wonderful afternoon time.

If you want an free application, you can take solution 1, If you want the speed and robustness of a dedicated application that you can use solution 2. It’s up to you. As long as you use one of the solutions presented above, you can view all WMV videos on QuickTime player as entertainment.

Tips: How to transfer video/audio files to iOS devices?

The best UniConverter supports to transfer the converted files to your iOS devices like iPad, iPhone, or iPod. Here’s how you can use UniConverter to send the videos to your iDevice:

Step 1. Get to the Transfer box.
Launch Wondershare UniConverter, select Toolbox from the category list in the left pane, and click the Transfer tile from the right.

Step 2. Connect your iOS device.
Use the original lightning cable to connect your iDevice to your PC, tap Trust on your device when UniConverter prompts, and on the next prompt, enter the passcode on your iPhone/iPad to establish trust between the two.

Step 3. Import videos to UniConverter.
Click the drop-down button next to the Add Files icon from the Transfer box’s top-left corner, click Add Files or Add Folder to import video files individually or add the entire folder with the clips in a single go, respectively.

Alternatively, you can also click the Add Files icon from the box’s center to import media files. In addition, UniConverter also supports drag-and-drop that lets you drag the footages from your computer and drop them directly to the Transfer box for importing.

Step 4. Transfer the videos.

Ensure that your iOS device’s name is present in the drop-down list at the top-right corner of the Transfer box, and click Transfer from the right side of the clip to transfer the video. Alternatively, click Transfer All from the bottom-right corner to send all the videos to your iDevice in a single go.

 

 

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