How can MXF Videos be played With VLC Media Player On Mac?

Whenever you shoot videos through camcorders, they are generally saved in the mxf format. And while playing these videos with VLC Player on Mac you might face some issues such as on clicking any position on the scroll bar the video may jump to the starting point or may get freeze. There is no need to worry, as it can be fixed with the help of third party application.

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MXF is a wrapper format for digital video as well as audio media or an open-standard container. This file format cannot be easily used in both Mac and Windows. Unfortunately all the camcorders record videos in MXF format such as Canon XF series, Panasonic P2 series, and Sony XDCAM series, whereas VLC is a light weight media utility player. It is best free open source multimedia player for Mac as well as Windows and at the same time it does not require large computer resources while playing the video. With the help of this player you can play the video, audio from VCD, CD, and DVD. But many players are facing problems when they play the MXF files on VLC on Mac. This problem can be fixed when the MXF video is converted into other video format that is easily recognized or supported by VLC like H.264 or MPEG-4 AVC, Theora, Cinepak, H.263, MJPEG, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 Part 2, Dirac, DV,H.265 or MPEG HEVC, Indeo 3, Sorenson, VC-1, VP5, DNxHD, ProRes RealVideo 3&4, HuffYUV, VP6, VP8, VP9, and some WMV.

How MXF videos can be played with VLC media player on Mac

In order to play the MXF video you have to convert the video into other video formats that is supported by VLC media player. This is possible with the help of MXF Video Converter for Mac. With the help of this converter you can easily convert the video into video formats that is supported by VLC. Using this software you can also convert MXF videos into other popular video formats such as WMV, FLV, MOV, AVI, MP4, etc. this software also gives you the option to trim, crop, add video effects as per your choice.

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