The most common cross platform movie format is MPEG video. The QuickTime format, originally developed for the Macintosh and very popular on that machine, can also now be viewed on other systems as well. Both formats can include audio to accompany the video, but so far there are few players that treat MPEG audio.

As was the case with sound, browsers themselves do not play movies that they receive from a server. Instead, they can be configured either to save a movie to a disk file, to pass the movie to a "helper" program which can play the movie, or to use a special plugin to play the particular format. For the Macintosh, the freeware program Sparkle can be used to play both MPEG and QuickTime movies, and can also be used to convert between the two formats.

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