Re: some avi's don't play on OSX
- From: Mike Coddington <mofo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 19:51:38 GMT
On Sat, 20 Aug 2005 00:34:35 -0400, mikey wrote
(in article <u1124512083@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):
> Some avi's won't play on my G5, either on Quicktime, WMP or VLC. Can
> anyone offer any help? Thanks.
>
The reason this can be tough is because AVIs are containers, not a movie type
in and of themselves. So you might have a Divx AVI or an H.264 AVI or who
knows what else. Here's a website that explains the mystery pretty well.
http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/playback/playosx.html
I've found that downloading the Divx codec has solved much of my AVI woes.
Download the codec here: http://www.3ivx.com/download/index.html
It's not perfect yet (Quicktime still won't play those MST3K episodes I get
off alt.binaries.multimedia.mst3k) but it's saved me a lot of grief. I find
that with this codec installed, the Divx Doctor program, VLC, and MPlayer, I
can watch 95% of the videos I want to watch.
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