Getting avi, mpeg and quicktime movies to play in front row

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Getting avi, mpeg and quicktime movies to play in front row

Having located the movies folder - I have created alias's for my movie folders on my external hard drive. However some of the these movies play perfectly well and some do not.
Also when I drag an mpeg movie into the folder to play in Front row - the sound comes through fine but without any picture.

Any help would be appreciated.

cheers

Mac OS X (10.4.4)

Posted on Mar 28, 2008 2:46 AM

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Groobs

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Mar 28, 2008 3:05 AM in response to Mat Tonge

It is all about the codecs used in within the movie files, quite often even though files are named .avi or .mpg they are not of the same format as the codecs used to rip the files are different.

Alas there are hundreds of variations so therefore your best bet is to get add ons like Perian or Flip4Mac which add various codecs to Quicktime.

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Mar 28, 2008 8:19 PM in response to Groobs

...quite often even though files are named .avi or .mpg they are not of the same format as the codecs used to rip the files are different.

An ".avi" file is just a container. The audio and/or video inside the container can be any of hundreds of codecs. Perian is a good addition to QuickTime to add quite a few codecs to QuickTime and, therefore, Front Row.

-Doug

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Mat Tonge Author

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Mar 29, 2008 6:12 PM in response to Mat Tonge

Thanks - the Flip for Mac download has helped

Cheers

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