QuackTime Player

Grrrrrr.  Why is it that the QuickTime player can only play MPEG-2 at OSX Lion levels.  It can play MPEG-4 just fine.  What is it about MPEG-2 that they couldn't handle?  VLC has been doing it for years.


This is the sort of crap that drives me bonkers with Apple stuff.  If you stay within the ecosystem, everything is fine, but once you stray out, you realize the ecosystem is actually quiet small and limited.


http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3775?viewlocale=en_US

Below are the video and audio file formats and codecs that QuickTime Player can playback in Mac OS X v10.6.x or OS X Lion:

Media type	File formats	Codecs or components
Video	QuickTime Movie (.mov) MPEG-4 (.mp4, .m4v) MPEG-2 (OS X Lion only) MPEG-1 3GPP 3GPP2 AVI DV	MPEG-2 (OS X Lion only) MPEG-4 (Part 2) H.264 H.263 H.261 Apple ProRes Apple Pixlet Animation Cinepak Component Video DV DVC Pro 50 Graphics Motion JPEG (Mac OS X v10.6.x only) Photo JPEG Sorenson Video 2 Sorenson Video 3