Watching .avi files with quicktime? Help

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Watching .avi files with quicktime? Help

Hi all,

I have a bunch of .avi movie files I want to watch, but when I try to open them with quicktime, I'm told I may need additional components to watch them. I'm taken to a screen with a bunch of vendors offering Quicktime components, but I have no idea which one(s) I need.

Can anyone tell me what I need to download for quicktime, or what other application I can use to watch .avi movie files?

Thanks!

Dave

Black Macbook 2.0 Ghz, Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Posted on Oct 10, 2006 2:41 PM

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Answer 1

Macest

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Oct 10, 2006 2:43 PM in response to DaveX83

This codec should play your .avi files: http://www.divx.com/divx/mac/

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Answer 2

kjk

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Oct 10, 2006 2:47 PM in response to DaveX83

Dave,
you need Flip4Mac, to start. Go to www.flip4mac.com and download their WMV components plugin. You may also need the DivX one. Go to www.DivX.com. Or, try the new plugin, Perian. http://perian.org/

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Answer 3

Oct 11, 2006 1:24 AM in response to DaveX83

http://perian.sourceforge.net/downloads.html check this one out... you can watch all movie formats with quictime

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Answer 4

Oct 11, 2006 2:23 AM in response to DaveX83

I had the same problem recently and found that the application 'MPlayer' will play all my .avi files. You can find it on the Versiontracker website, and it's Freeware!

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kjk

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Oct 11, 2006 8:57 AM in response to bluegecko

bluegecko,
if you like MPlayer, you might also like VLC-a similar player, also open source and free, that plays a lot of formats. (it is also cross platform) http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-macosx.html (be sure to get the Intel, not PPC version)

Personally, I'm hoping the new Perian or Niceplayer evolve into supporting more formats, as I prefer using Quicktime or Niceplayer's interface to MPlayer or VLC.

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