How to Play AVI on Mac OS X El Capitan?

Summary: This article provides tips on converting AVI for playing AVI on Mac OS X El Capitan smoothly. Keep reading and find something useful to you.

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What’s the new features about OS X El Capitan?
OS X El Capitan refers to the operating system exclusively unveiled at WWDC 2015 permitted to run on Mac computer by Apple Inc., after OS X 10.10 Yosemite. Aside from taking its name from California’s famous summit, El Capitan adds in more features such as gestures to make deleting messages in Mail quicker and easier than ever. On top of bringing new features to the Mac desktop environment, the new version of OS X will allow users to better manage their windows. Of course, El Capitan also brings performance increases. This includes a 1.4x acceleration in app launching, a two times improvement in switching apps, the time to receiving mail messages is twice as fast, and opening a PDF in preview is four times as fast. Additionally, OS X El Capitan also marks Metal’s introduction into the Apple’s desktop environment since it was first implemented with iOS 8 last year.

What most people want from OS X El Capitan?
According to research and survey on social media like Twitter, Mac users can’t wait to try the new window management, built-in apps and Spotlight® search, and Metal™, Apple’s breakthrough graphics technology. On the other hand, there is an increasing demand–converting, editing and playing video files like AVI and others on OS X El Capitan.

Simple introduction of AVI:
AVI, Audio Video Interleave video file format is developed by Microsoft mainly for Windows operating systems. Audio and video can be played in synchronous format without any halt in the video. AVI file format can be played with various media players like AVI media player, Media player classic, Plex and many others.

As mentioned above, AVI is a file format mainly for Windows operating system. How about we play AVI on Mac OS X El Capitan default media player- QuickTime? However, QuickTime player on this new operation system are still restricted due to its limited media playback support for only certain file formats such as QuickTime Movie (*.mov), MPEG-4 (.mp4, .m4v), MPEG-2, MPEG-1, 3GPP, 3GPP2, AVCHD, AVI (Motion JPEG only) and DV.

How to solve AVI playback problem on Mac OS X El Capitan? If you are not such a technical guy, it’s better to try out the easiest and quicker way; convert AVI to playable format on Mac OS X El Capitan. In order to save you from complex running steps, here suggest you Pavtube Video Converter for Mac (review), which is a professional tool to convert AVI to any popular format for all of your Mac applications or other digital devices. It has a good reputation online that can solve almost all the video format conversion troubles for our users. Even for the latest codec H.265/HEVC, it can hold well. Besides, it also supports encoding to M3U8.

                            

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How to play AVI on Mac OS X El Capitan?

Step 1: Download and have a quick installation. The trial version will have a watermark on your converted files. Except for that, there are no time limitation, no virus, and no unnecessary bundle apps while downloading. After that, click “Add Video” button to load your AVI files. You can load several files at once thanks to “Add from folder” button.



Step 2: Select the right formats for playing AVI on Mac OS X El Capitan. Here we suggest you to go to the “Common Video” list, you will get the “MOV- QuickTime (*.mov)” as the best output.



Step 3: It’s optional to edit video files before converting. If you want to do some edit work, just hit the clip first, and then click “Edit selected task” button. As it’s shown to us, the edit function is sufficient for you to make your videos wonderful.

Step 4: Click “Settings” button to customize the output video and audio settings by yourself. But if you are not good at it, you’d better use the default parameters, they will ensure you a good balance between file size and image quality basically. You can change the resolution, bit rate, frame rate as you need.

Step 5: Click “Convert” button on the bottom of the screen to start AVI conversion process. The amount of time it takes will vary based on your system’s hardware and the quality settings you selected.

Conclusion: If you are a good reader, you’ll have no question about how to play AVI on Mac OS X El Capitan. Since there are many video programs on the market, if you are confused about which one to take, just try Pavtube Video Converter for Mac to ask for help cause disadvantages of it are not found yet.

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How to Convert AVI to MP4 on Mac Yosemite/Windows 8.1

Some media applications and portable media devices do not support AVI and require conversion, such as iPhone, iPod, iPad, HTC and so on, while MP4 is a video format commonly found on many portable media devices because of its high compression and high quality output.



Maybe you've got some torrent movies or TV shows in AVI format, or some family AVI footages from your digital camcorders, like Canon camcorder or mobile phone saved on your Mac's hard drive. But you may soon notice that you are not able to play AVI on Mac, because the Mac native player - QuickTime can't recognize your AVI files at all! And you are unable to organize AVI in iTunes, sync to iOS devices for playback on the move, and edit AVI in iMovie etc. All these happen because that AVI is not the compatible format with Mac OS X Yosemite and iOS. So if you want to use AVI which requires you to convert AVI to MP4 or other Mac OS X Yosemite/Windows 8.1 compatible formats for a change.

As the most widely used video format, MP4, to which you convert AVI, gives you access to your iPod, iPad or iPhone etc. with any video in unsupported file formats including AVI. This article would show you how to convert AVI to MP4 on Mac OS X Yosemite step by step with Pavtube Video Converter for Mac. If you want to convert AVI to MP4 on Windows 8.1, you can refer to corresponding Pavtube Video Converter.

                          

Below are quick steps for you to convert AVI to MP4 on Mac Yosemite.

Step 1: Click the “Add Video” button or “Add from folder” icon on the main interface to import AVI files after downloading and installing this Mac Video Converter. Drag and drop files are also available. When the files are loaded to the program, you can view them from the Preview window. Simply select an item and click the “Play” button. When the video is playing, you may take snapshoot when it plays to your favorable frame by clicking the “Snapshoot” button.



Step 2: Click the “Format” bar to get the drop-down menu and you can get “HD Video>>H.264 HD Video (*.mp4)” as best output format.



Step 3: To set the profile settings, please click the “Settings” button. General speaking, the default settings are just fine. Click the “Browse” button to browse and specify a destination folder to save the converted files.

Step 4: When everything is ready, click “Convert” to start converting AVI to MP4. This Mac Video Converter supports batch conversion so you may load multiple files and convert them at one time.

Conclusion: As AVI to MP4 Mac Video Converter, it enables you to trim out unwanted part, crop out black bars, change aspect ratio from 4:3 to 16:9 and vice versa, rotate 90 degrees clockwise, anti-clockwise, add plug-in subtitles, apply special effect, and more. If you want to merge several clips into a whole one, “Merge into one file” can help you to realize it. Try it for free now!

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