Your old videos may not play in macOS Catalina. Here's why<article>
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<p>Apple sheds the past as necessary to provide new features in its products. With macOS 10.15 Catalina, Apple gave up on 32-bit software after two years of Apple warning about that event coming. That meant iPhoto and a host of third-party apps could no longer be used after upgrading. But less remarked upon were video formats that relied on software components Apple had never updated to 64-bit compatibility.</p><p>There’s <a href="
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT209029" rel="nofollow">a long list of formats dropped in last fall’s macOS update[/url], and it includes faves from years past: RealVideo, DivX, Sorenson 3, FlashPix, and many great hits that eventually were superseded by improved encoders. (An encoder takes a stream of video and represents it with a certain degree of fidelity to the original, while storing it efficiently, and often in a way that is also designed optimized for rapid, smooth playback as the data is read out of the file.)</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3562708/your-old-videos-may-not-play-in-macos-catalina-heres-why.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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Your old videos may not play in macOS Catalina. Here's why
