Fix M4V File That Is Not Playing in QuickTime

“Hello folks, my QuickTime Player is not playing any of the M4V movies all of a sudden. Yesterday I spent lot of time in downloading my favorite movies (of .m4v file format) on iTunes on Mac. Later when I clicked to play the movie files in QuickTime, no file is played. Can anyone suggest me why M4V file is not playing in QuickTime? I don’t posses any backup of these files and need to resolve it somehow. Please help. Thanks in advance.”

M4V is a video container file format usually used by iTunes to hold movies. This video format contains two separate mpeg video and mp4 audio streams, which will be synchronized to play the movie. When M4V video files are made to play it provides vibrant picture quality with powerful sound effects. Conversely, users have encountered various problems while trying to play .m4v file in QuickTime as mentioned in the above instance. To know more about why M4V files refuse to play in QuickTime, read below.

Key factors that make M4V file unplayable in QuickTime:

• To play .m4v videos (downloaded from iTunes) on QuickTime, the player requires certain Codec. Lack of these necessary Codec on your Mac computer may root to the unpleasant situation of M4V file not playing in QuickTime
• Interruptions while downloading .m4v files from unsecured sites or with improper internet facility, intrusion of harmful threats during M4V file transfer over network, etc. can also result in same trouble
• Malfunctioning of QuickTime player due to incorrect upgrade of its version, performing unreliable updates, etc, can corrupt the M4V file that is made to play on it
• Damage to M4V videos as a result of virus intrusion, presence of bad media spots in the memory where M4V files are saved, uneven change of file type from .m4v to other video formats or vice-versa, etc can make the file not to play in QuickTime player

User may encounter many other situations after which .m4v video files stop playing in QuickTime player. Nevertheless, this unfriendly circumstance can be evaded if there is proper backup of required M4V movies. With the absence of appropriate backup, the only way to overcome this problem is to use excellent video repair tool to repair the unplayable M4V movie files.

Software to repair M4V videos that won’t play in QuickTime:

Yodot MOV Repair is the best utility to fix unplayable M4V videos on Mac systems. This tool is latent with outstanding repair strategies that perform quick and safe fixing of MOV, M4V as well as MP4 videos that refuse to play in QuickTime and other multimedia players. This software can easily mend corrupted or damaged, large sized or out-of-sync M4V movies on Mac systems like MacBook Pro, Mac Mini, MacBook Air and iMac. It also repairs M4V videos from iPod and iPhone with extreme ease. Mac users can avail the software to use on Mac OS X version 10.6 (Snow Leopard), v10.7 (Lion) and v 10.8 (Mountain Lion). More to this, software provides separate version of the tool for Windows users to fix M4V file on computers/notebooks installed with Windows 8, Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Server 2003 and 2008 operating systems.

Follow these steps to repair unplayable M4V file:

• Download and install Yodot MOV Repair tool on to your Mac computer
• After successful installation, run the utility and wait for the main screen
• In main window, browse for your unplayable .m4v file by clicking on Open button
• Then click on Repair button to trigger video file repair process
• Software consumes few seconds to scan and resolves various issues of the selected M4V file
• After repair process completes, preview the fixed file description and proceed to save that video file
• Specify destination location where you wish to save the repaired .M4v file and click Save

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