How to play .mxf video on QuickTime?

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QuickTime Player is a great application for playing media content, including HD (high definition) video in OS X. QuickTime Player supports many modern codecs and file formats, so simply double-click your media file in the Finder and it will open in QuickTime Player. If a media file doesn't automatically open in QuickTime Player by double-clicking it, you can choose the Open File option from the File menu, browse to the file's location, and select it. Additionally, you can open a streaming media file (or event) by clicking the File menu and then choosing Open Location and entering the Internet address (the URL) for the movie file.

Below are the video formats that QuickTime Player can playback in Mac OS X v10.6.x or OS X Lion:
QuickTime Movie (.mov)
MPEG-4 (.mp4, .m4v)
MPEG-2 (OS X Lion only)
MPEG-1
3GPP
3GPP2
AVI
DV

It doesn't support .MXF format, So how to play .mxf with quicktime?

The development of the Material Exchange Format (MXF) is a remarkable achievement of collaboration between manufacturers and between major organisations such as Pro-MPEG, the EBU and the AAF Association. It establishes interoperability of content between various applications used in the television production chain. This leads to operational efficiency and creative freedom through a unified networked environment.

.MXF File Extension, multimedia format used by digital audio and video programs; contains captured audio and video data as well as metadata that describes the media stored in the file; designed by Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) as a standard container for audio and video data; can be converted into other formats, such as .AVI or .MOV.

MXF files were designed to streamline workflows between different platforms, such as cameras, digital editing equipment, and servers. The file format adopts a subset of the Advanced Authoring Format (AAF), which was designed to help standardize the interchange of video between multiple vendors and platforms.

We could convert mxf to quicktime .mov or other formats that can be played with quicktime.

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