nudibranch2

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Q: Why won't QuickTime Player play my video?

I tried to open a video, but it said "The movie is not in a format that QuickTime Player understands". So I clicked "Tell Me More" and it showed me a list of formats that QuickTime Player does understand, but the format the video is in was on the list! (By the way, the file extension is .AVI) Thanks!!

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Posted on Jan 1, 2013 12:05 PM

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Download from the Internet VLC media player. That should solve you compatibility problems.

Ciao.

Posted on Jan 1, 2013 12:59 PM

Q: Why won't QuickTime Player play my video?

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by nudibranch2,

nudibranch2 Jan 1, 2013 12:48 PM in response to nudibranch2
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Jan 1, 2013 12:48 PM in response to nudibranch2

Wait, I just read something on apple support that said "[.AVI] specifies a way in which a file may contain audio and video data. It does not specify how that data is encoded. The encoding of audio and video data is specified in what are known as codecs." and then proceded to tell me how to find these codecs, which would enable me to download something that would let QuicktTime Player play those codecs. But there was no "Movie menu" or "Show movie info"! Help please! The site I found was http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1536
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OGELTHORPE Jan 1, 2013 12:59 PM in response to nudibranch2
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Jan 1, 2013 12:59 PM in response to nudibranch2

Download from the Internet VLC media player. That should solve you compatibility problems.

Ciao.
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nudibranch2 Jan 1, 2013 1:42 PM in response to OGELTHORPE
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Jan 1, 2013 1:42 PM in response to OGELTHORPE

Thank you sooooo much!!! It worked!
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