Embed .mov file via 'Add Media' not working

I’m having the same issue, and am hunting for a solution. I’ll let you know what I find, if anything.

I just found this… and it seems to be working for me. You just need to add the code to your functions.php file.

/**
 * Add support for the QuickTime (.mov) video format.
 */
add_filter( 'wp_video_extensions',
    function( $exts ) {
        $exts[] = 'mov';
        return $exts;
    }
);

https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/165706/embed-mov-file-via-add-media-not-working

How funny. That was my duplicate posting on stack exchange.

Bizarrely, that seems to break my site when added to child theme functions.php

Is it formatted correctly?

You can wrap the link to the video in short codes and it will work without the filter.

Example

[video width="2000" height="720" mov="https://example.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/demo.mov"][/video]

Hi, I just stumbled in here ??

If we want to upload the .mov file, we will need the above filter, because it’s not supported by default.

If we already have the .mov file uploaded to our site (like via ftp), we can use the shortcode directly, just as Brad Dalton mentioned.

@dozza – note that I wrote the above filter example with PHP 5.3+ in mind, so most likely you got an older PHP version. If that’s the case, then this should work:

/**
 * Add support for the QuickTime (.mov) video format (PHP < 5.3 )
 */
add_filter( 'wp_video_extensions', 'wpse_support_mov_format' );

function wpse_support_mov_format( $exts ) {
    $exts[] = 'mov';
    return $exts;
}

If we want to upload the .mov file, we will need the above filter, because it’s not supported by default.

Some references on allowed mime types.

About Uploading Files on Dashboard >> WordPress supports uploading the following file types: See video

https://core.trac.www.ads-software.com/browser/branches/4.2/src/wp-includes/functions.php#L2164

// Video formats.
2185	        'asf|asx' => 'video/x-ms-asf',
2186	        'wmv' => 'video/x-ms-wmv',
2187	        'wmx' => 'video/x-ms-wmx',
2188	        'wm' => 'video/x-ms-wm',
2189	        'avi' => 'video/avi',
2190	        'divx' => 'video/divx',
2191	        'flv' => 'video/x-flv',
2192	        'mov|qt' => 'video/quicktime',
2193	        'mpeg|mpg|mpe' => 'video/mpeg',
2194	        'mp4|m4v' => 'video/mp4',
2195	        'ogv' => 'video/ogg',
2196	        'webm' => 'video/webm',
2197	        'mkv' => 'video/x-matroska',
2198	        '3gp|3gpp' => 'video/3gpp', // Can also be audio
2199	        '3g2|3gp2' => 'video/3gpp2', // Can also be audio

hehe, many thanks for the correction @claytonjames, the uploading is indeed supported and been for a long time ??

I was just too hasty here recalling the problem – the question wasn’t about uploading problems, but regarding the embedding via the “Add Media”.

By default the wp_get_video_extensions() returns

'mp4', 'm4v', 'webm', 'ogv', 'wmv', 'flv'

where we can add 'mov' via the wp_video_extensions filter.