Many a times, operating systems even as powerful as Mac are unable to play MP4 video file. In such situation you often feel frustrated and ask yourself a number of questions such as why can’t my Mac play MP4 video file? What is the reason? How to successfully play MP4 files in Mac? Etc if you are a user with these kinds of questions, just sit back and relax as this article will give you reasons and solutions.
There are numerous reasons due to which an MP4 video on Mac won’t play; the main and possible reason being MP4 video file corruption. MP4 videos on Mac gets corrupt due to causes such as insufficient MP4 video file codec, improper media player installation, interruption while downloading MP4 video, power failure while conversion of MP4 video from one format to another, improper system termination while playing a video clip, malware infection on MP4 header file and many others.
In order to solve the problem, you can try few solutions such as removing malwares from MP4 files using powerful antivirus program, avoiding interruption while downloading an MP4 video clip, installing proper codec’s to your MP4 video, playing your MP4 on reliable Multimedia players etc. Even after following the above mentioned methods, if you are still unable to play your MP4 video file, then the one and only solution available to you is to repair your corrupt MP4 video with the aid of video repair utility like Remo Repair MOV.
Remo Repair MOV is just the ideal MP4 video repair utility, which helps you fix any kind of problems associated with your MP4 file. After using this utility, rest is assured you’ll be able to play your unplayable MP4 video on Mac. This is not all; you can make use of this wonderful video repair utility to easily repair severely corrupt, damaged, inaccessible, unplayable and broken MP4 video. Furthermore, Remo Repair MOV supports fixing of other popular Mac video files including MP4, MOV and M4V.
There are many features due to which Remo Repair is considered as the best; like free trial version of the software is available to users through which one can predict the outcome before actual purchase. Remo Repair utility works on read only mode which ensures no damage is made to the original MP4 video while repair process. More to this, the tool is built with a very simple to use graphical interface using which even a novice computer user can fix his / her MP4 video successfully. Furthermore the tool is compatible for computers which run on Windows (OR) Mac OS.
Step 1: Download and install Remo Repair MOV application on your Mac machine. Open the application and click "Open" to select your not working MP4 video. After selection, click on "Repair" button to fix it.
Figure A: Main Screen
Step 2: Remo Repair software starts analyzing and fixing the corrupt file. You can monitor the repair progress by looking at the progress bar.
Figure B: View Repairing Progress
Step 3: After repair completion, you’ll be taken to next windows with “Preview Repaired File” and “Save Repaired File” options. Preview the repaired MP4 video clip by using preview repaired file option and save the repaired video by clicking on save repaired file button.
Figure C: Preview & Save Repaired File