benjiolino Posted April 1 Share Posted April 1 Hello, I film a lot with my Sony A7S III in H.264 10 bit 422 and with my Macbook M2 MAX but also with my former M1 Pro and a MacBook Air M1 I can open these files in Quicktime and also open them with Quicklook with the spacebar. With my Hackintosh that is such more powerful than any of these Macs I cannot open them. I wonder how this could be. I wonder if I should try to copy the QT app or the codecs from my MacBook but I don't want to destroy anything. Does anyone have an idea? m Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benjiolino Posted April 1 Author Share Posted April 1 (edited) It seams that it ha to do with intel vs. apple silicon. All Apple silicon can play thiose files in QT and non of the intel machines, no matter how powerful. Can someone confirm this? Here is a clip, but you have to download it: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GYAyDG_p50PZ2ue7DswlBDG26B4XJXP2/view?usp=sharing Edited April 1 by benjiolino Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slice Posted April 1 Share Posted April 1 6 hours ago, benjiolino said: It seams that it ha to do with intel vs. apple silicon. All Apple silicon can play thiose files in QT and non of the intel machines, no matter how powerful. Can someone confirm this? Here is a clip, but you have to download it: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GYAyDG_p50PZ2ue7DswlBDG26B4XJXP2/view?usp=sharing Yes, I also can't play it as is. But I can encode it by HandBrake (free) and then play by QuickTime. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benjiolino Posted April 1 Author Share Posted April 1 (edited) 3 hours ago, Slice said: Yes, I also can't play it as is. But I can encode it by HandBrake (free) and then play by QuickTime. Well that’s not really the point. I’m editing the material anyway. It’s about going through quickly on setbwith quicklook and not having to use vlc. I guess there’s no solution to this unfortunately. I just wonder how QuickTime knows if it’s on a intel or apple silicon machine. Maybe there is some kind of plist that can be edited. Even my iPad plays these files back Edited April 1 by benjiolino Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slice Posted April 2 Share Posted April 2 I think QuickTime has the codec plugin but only for ARM architecture. While VLC and HandBrake has it for Intel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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