果树 » QuickTime http://blog.qevan.com Sat, 31 Dec 2011 05:54:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 How to make QuickTime X play mkv files http://blog.qevan.com/posts/507.g http://blog.qevan.com/posts/507.g#comments Sun, 04 Oct 2009 12:12:54 +0000 果子 http://blog.qevan.com/?p=507 I found a compatibility issue of perian playing mkv on QuickTime X. A lot of posts suggested re-installing QT 7. I happened to find this article introducing a very simple way to make quicktime X play MKV.

Here is how.

Edit QuickTime Player.app’s /Contents/info.plist with a plain text editor like textmate or textwrangler. At the end of the file, before </dict></plist>, add the following code

<key>UTExportedTypeDeclarations</key>
<array>
<dict>
<key>UTTypeConformsTo</key>
<array>
<string>public.movie</string>
</array>
<key>UTTypeDescription</key>
<string>Matroska Video File</string>
<key>UTTypeIconName</key>
<string>generic</string>
<key>UTTypeIdentifier</key>
<string>com.apple.quicktime.mkv</string>
<key>UTTypeReferenceURL</key>
<string>http://www.matroska.org/</string>
<key>UTTypeTagSpecification</key>
<dict>
<key>public.filename-extension</key>
<array>
<string>mkv</string>
</array>
</dict>
</dict>
</array>

Open Terminal.app, run command 

sudo touch  /Applications/QuickTime\ Player.app

That’s all!
I have tested on my quicktime X on snow leopard.

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