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Can QuickTime Player Repair Corrupt MOV & MP4 Videos

Written By Sumona Chatterjee
Updated on 25 Jul, 2022
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Summary: If your video files or say a bunch of MOV and MP4 video files have gone corrupt, then you should try using QuickTime Media Player to repair damage in such videos? Other than QuickTime Player, Stellar Repair for Video is a safe option to fix bad videos.

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Apple QuickTime Player can be easily downloaded from Apple’s official website, and it is available for Windows and macOS. The basic version of the QuickTime Player is free though QuickTime Player has plenty of advanced features waiting in the Pro version. Some of these QuickTime Player Pro features are:

New Player
Open Image Sequence
Trim to Selection
Add Movie
Add to Selection and Scale
Present Movie
Poster Frame
Show Movie Properties
Loopback and Forth and much more

But, QuickTime Player doesn’t contain features that can help you rebuild a damaged MOV or MP4 video file. Yes, QuickTime Player has many advanced sets of features, but that serves the purposes of playing, trimming, editing, exporting, saving, reverting, and looping video files. Unlike VLC, which can repair damaged .MOV and .MP4 videos, QuickTime Player, lays its hand in repairing a damaged video file.

Can you fix QuickTime Black Screen?

If a MOV or MP4 video is severely damaged, you may receive QuickTime Player’s Black Screen error message. This black screen indicates the failure of the media player to run your video smoothly. Since QuickTime Player lacks advanced video repair features, you will require professional MP4 and MOV video repair software.

Check for Movie Inspector

In QuickTime Player, click on the ‘Windows’ tab and select the ‘Show Movie Inspector‘ from the bar to know your video file details. It could be of little help because it lets you know details such as– Video Format, Movie FPS, Playing FPS, Data Size, Data Rate, Duration, Resolution, etc. If your video is damaged and QuickTime flashes a black screen error, then the Movie Inspector will inform you about the distortion in the video file’s metadata (if any).

Figure: QuickTime Player- Movie Inspector

Alternative Video Repair Software for QuickTime Player

When a media player, be it QuickTime Player or VLC player, can’t provide enough technical features to repair corrupt MOV or unplayable MP4 video files, download a free copy of Stellar Repair for Video Software. This tool performs batch repair of corrupt video files having video formats – MP4, AVI, ASF, WMV, MKV, FLV, DIVX, WEBM, MJPEG, MPEG, AVCHD, MTS, MOV, 3G2, 3GP, M4V and F4V files.

Disclaimer: Free version allows a preview of the repaired video. Register the product to save repaired video files.

Benefits of Stellar Repair for Video Software

It saves the repaired video files in mentioned above formats.
Efficiently repairs single and multiple damaged videos. This video repair software addresses the corruption of video header, sound distortion, duration, and slider movement damages.
Upload bad and unplayable videos from the computer’s hard drive, USB, and SD cards.
Provides the preview of MOV MP4 videos before and after the repair.
Support for Windows 11 and macOS Monterey 12.
It also supports Windows 10, 8.1, 8, 7, XP, Vista, and macOS Big Sur 11, Catalina 10.15, Mojave 10.14, High Sierra 10.13, Sierra 10.12, El Capitan 10.11, Yosemite 10.10, and below versions.

Helpful Screenshots highlighting the repairing process with Stellar Repair for Video

#1) Launch Stellar Repair for Video software after the installation process.

Stellar Video Repair for Mac - Add Files

#2) Add video file(s) you want to repair.

Stellar Video Repair for Mac - Click Repair Added Files

#3) Click on the “Repair” tab to initiate the repairing process.

Stellar Video Repair for Mac - Repairing Selected Videos

#4) Repairing the video file(s) depends upon the size and length after which the process completed dialogue box appears.

Stellar Video Repair for Mac - Repair Process Completed Save the Repaired Files

#5) Preview the repaired video files, and if another action to “Advance Repair” prompts, click on that to repair the severely damaged video.

Stellar Video Repair for Mac - Preview the Repaired Files

#6) Add a ‘sample video’ of the same format, shot from the same device.

Stellar Video Repair for Mac - Repair damaged videos using Advance Repair Click Next

#7) Once the video(s) is repaired, click on ‘Save Repaired Files‘ to save them at your desired location on your MAC.

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Sumona Chatterjee

Sumona is a tech blogger, avid photographer, & technogeek with vast experience in writing about media file recovery tips and tutorials. She has over 10 years of experience in media file recovery/media file repair technology. She is passionate about Photography, Creative Designing, Music, and Exploring lesser-known destinations.

12 comments

Josh Lake says:

November 19, 2020 at 10:13 am

Hi, I had the same problem on my iMac and I tried to repair .avi file on VLC or QT player in preference input codecs but still not repair the files when I play the file it’s won’t play. I just want to be sure your video repair tool works on iMac? Thanks!

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1. Sumona Chatterjee says:
  
  November 23, 2020 at 12:00 pm
  
  Hi Josh, you can try our software’s free version and see a preview of the repaired files (up to 20% of the total video size). Thank you!
  
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Gabe Tang says:

November 16, 2020 at 10:15 am

I recently check my dashcam videos, Accidently one of the video is corrupt from my dashcam. I don’t know why is corrupt other videos are play well, I tried to play on QuickTime, VLC but won’t play them. Any suggestion how to play or fix this issue!

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1. Sumona Chatterjee says:
  
  November 27, 2020 at 10:35 am
  
  Hi Gabe, you can try our software free version and see the preview of repaired video file. Thanks!
  
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Bonnie Odin says:

February 11, 2020 at 2:28 am

Hi, I had a problem with data corruption, bad card reader caused data corruption on a microSD. I was not able to fix MP4 files. I tried Stellar software some files are recovered, some are still have an issue. What should I do for next?

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1. Sumona Chatterjee says:
  
  February 13, 2020 at 4:59 am
  
  Hi Bonnie,
  Pls perform “Advance repair” in our software to repair your other MP4 files and confirm the outcome.
  Thanks!
  
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Sylvain Galineau says:

June 27, 2019 at 10:24 am

Hi, I got an mp4 files corrupt when I record a shoot. I simply used stellar video repair software and now it works fine. Thanks!

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1. Sumona Chatterjee says:
  
  June 28, 2019 at 10:39 am
  
  Hi Sylvain, Thanks for using our software!
  
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Eduardo Castanho says:

April 24, 2018 at 10:07 am

I have an SD card with 50 mp4 files on it. After 20 mp4 files are fine rest of all the video file is corrupt. Then I found your article on Google. I used your Stellar Video Repair Software. It’s helped me a lot. Thank you!

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1. Sumona Chatterjee says:
  
  April 26, 2018 at 6:00 am
  
  Hello,
  
  We feel glad that our software solves your query. Thanks for trying Stellar Repair for Video software.
  
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Kirtein Caroll says:

August 28, 2017 at 10:55 am

The product works beyond my imagination. When I lose all hope for very crucial mp4 videos. This software really helps me.

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1. Jyoti Prakash says:
  
  August 29, 2017 at 5:14 am
  
  Hello Kirtein,
  
  Thanks for the appreciation. Please follow us on twitter for more updates and offers.
  
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