Quicktime and VLC won't play back h264 encoded video
Hello, all. I have an iMac G5. Running Leopard 10.5.2. It's working just swimmingly... except that it won't play back h264 video. I have the latest versions of both Quicktime and VLC.
Each app handles the video files differently.
Quicktime will give me this message:
"The movie could not be opened.
An invalid sample description was found in the movie."
VLC will play the audio, but not the video.
My computer can handle HD playback just fine (I watch most of my movies in 720p AVI files,) so that can't be the problem.
This is just driving me insane. Does anyone have a solution for me?
Each app handles the video files differently.
Quicktime will give me this message:
"The movie could not be opened.
An invalid sample description was found in the movie."
VLC will play the audio, but not the video.
My computer can handle HD playback just fine (I watch most of my movies in 720p AVI files,) so that can't be the problem.
This is just driving me insane. Does anyone have a solution for me?
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... It's working just swimmingly... except that it won't play back h264 video. ...
This is just driving me insane. Does anyone have a solution for me?
H.264 is part of Apple's QuickTime audio-visual frameworks. h264 is a non-standard H.264 clone. There are other clones such as x264. As a first iteration, download and install the Perian 1.1 codec suite. If your video still does not play, then use VLC or the QuickTime Player to determine the formats of the audio and video tracks, and report back here.