1. In order to solve this problem and play your AVI file smoothly, we provide some simple solutions. Download necessary plug-ins. If you want to play the AVI file in Quick Time player, then you can install a plugin called Perian. Perian is a free component that is referred to as a Swiss Army knife for QuickTime player.
2. The VLC player offers the option to automatically repair damaged files with an.AVI extension, considering that in this case we have videos in.Mov format, we will need to use the VLC function to convert the format to.AVI and thus the player can perform the automatic repairs.
3. Fix 1: Use an AVI Compatible Media Player on Mac. While QuickTime might not have the needed codec for AVI, there are plenty of other media players that can play AVI on Mac instead. Here are some of these popular AVI players that you can consider using: VLC Media Player. Wondershare UniConverter.
4. Install a QuickTime plug-in on your Mac. Perian is a free and open source QuickTime component that support any media format like AVI, FLV, MKV. It is easy to install and works instantly once it’s set up. One disadvantage of Perian is that it doesn’t work with QuickTime 10 or more. Convert AVI video file to QuickTime supported format.

There might be some old files in AVI container in your local movie library cause AVI was very popular a long time ago. And if you want to play some non-DVD video on DVD Player, AVI is also a good choice. Facing with so many AVI video, how can you do if you want to play these AVI files with QuickTime? After all, almost every Mac user know that QuickTime only can play .mp4 .mov . m4v video.

QuickTime doesn’t support to play AVI files. If you want to play your video using QuickTime, there are two solutions: 1. Convert AVI to other formats that compatible with QuickTime player, like MOV, MP4, M4V.

To play AVI video in QuickTime, there are two ways:

Method 1: You can install a QuickTime AVI plugin for a smooth playback on the player. Perian is a free QuickTime component that can let you play various popular video formats (including AVI) not natively supported by QuickTime. However, it’s pity that Perian for QuickTime has no longer been maintained and updated.

Method 2: You also can convert AVI to MP4/MOV/M4V for QuickTime with some video converter.Then you can watch AVI videos on QuickTime. Actually, with video transcoder, you can play various video in QuickTime.

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How to Convert AVI to MOV for QuickTime?

Step 1: Load AVI files

After installation, just open this app to enter into its default interface. Then, in the top left hand corner of this app’s interface, click the “Files” button to import the AVI files you want from the computer. Or, directly open the folder to find your favorite AVI files, and then drag these target files to this program. This video converter supports batch conversion so you can add multiple AVI files and batch convert them to QuickTime.

Step 2: Choose output format

Select and custom output format. Click “Common Video” > “MOV – QuickTime (*.MOV)” to get the optimized output file for AVI to QuickTime conversion on Mac El Capitan.

Tip: You can also check the “Settings” box, and set video codec, video size, Bitrate, frame rate to get a decent video you want on your QuickTime player.

Note: The AVI to MOV Converter Mac additionally offers you some useful edit functions for making your videos more enjoyable. You can split, crop, add cool effects to your media files or capture your favorite scene of the video.

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Step 3. Start to convert AVI to MOV on Mac

Hit the “Convert” button and let this smart Mac AVI to MOV Video Converter do the rest for you! This video converter was specifically designed for Mac OS users. It performs greatly on iMac, Mac Pro, MacBook, MacBook Pro, MacBook Air either with Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan, 10.10 Yosemite, 10.9 Mavericks, 10.8 Mountain Lion, Mac OS X Lion or Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.

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When the conversion is done, you can play the output MOV videos in QuickTime and you also can edit them in iMovie, Final Cut Pro, or put them on your iPad Air 3, iPad Pro, iPhone 7 for playback whenever you like. It is cool, right? Have a nice media experience then!

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