Common mac file extensions movie#
Common mac file extensions mp4#

Common mac file extensions mp4#

This is actually just a mp4 container вЂ“ so you can rename those safely to mp4 files and make them work properly with Video File List. Recent flash video files use the ending f4v. Partial MKV support is planned for a future version. Also, multi-channel encoding is current not supported.

MKV containers contain too many different audio and video formats to be supported at the moment. The icon in the audio column shows the number of audio channels. Contact usВ if you have ideas/need for other formats! Currently, WMV files are added to the list, but no further meta data is displayed (see below).

Common mac file extensions movie#

Video File ListВ supports most common movie files on the Mac: MPEG (mp4/m4v/mpg/mp3-audio), Quicktime (mov), Matroska (mkv), Divx/Xvid (Avi), MJpeg, FLV. (Reset the warning in the advanced preferences.) You need to confirm the deletion every time, unless you choose to surpress the warning. If you use Video File ListВ on a server volume that does not support a trash folder, the file will be deleted immediately. On an internal or local connected drive, clicking trash will move to movie file to the trash folder, from where you can recover the file if needed.

Consider re-encoding movie files with a ratio of 1:50 or less! Movie files with higher resolution tend to have a higher compression ratio as well. using tools like Handbrake) Reasonable values for h264 encoded movies are 1:100 вЂ“ 1:300, for h265 movies 1:200 up to 1:1000 for 4K movies. You can use that value to decide whether to keep movies or convert them to more efficient formats. This value gives an indication of how well/optimal the movie is encoded.

* requires recent hardware with Kaby Lake (6th gen) or later CPU (2017+) вЂ“ earlier machines use much slower software encoding Ctrl/Right Click on the column name for a menu where you can select/de-select columns.ДЇinally, you can export the list (from the file menu) to a format compatible with Numbers, Excel etc. Can directly be set via Ctrl/Right-Click. Encoding вЂ“ status of the current encode job, marked files for later encoding.Subs language code of subtitles found (only for mkv and some mp4).Audio channel(s), format, and language code (if available, only for mkv and mp4).Compression Ratio: How effecient is the compression of the file.Codec: Compression format of the video part of the movie.