avi player?

Original Message

Name: Big Mac
Date: November 4, 2004 at 15:08:52 Pacific
Subject: avi player?
OS: 10.3.5
CPU/Ram: 384

Comment:

Is there any way to play an AVI file on a
mac?

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Response Number 1

Name: dominicus
Date: November 4, 2004 at 15:51:11 Pacific
Subject: avi player?

Reply: (edit)

Quicktime's been able to play them since
way back in version 3x (or maybe it was
4x)..
if you cant then there might be some
other thing wrong..i'm not sure, you might
need the intel indeo extensions versions
3, 4, and 5...theyr'e on apple's site at any
rate.....
%00

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Response Number 2

Name: hapeekrapee
Date: November 4, 2004 at 16:36:36 Pacific
Subject: avi player?

Reply: (edit)

You can also try a different media player. DIVX.com has a free version that is supposed to be able to play ANY .avi video. I have yet to encounter a problem with it on my Mac.

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Response Number 3

Name: wwjax
Date: November 6, 2004 at 10:32:25 Pacific
Subject: avi player?

Reply: (edit)

VLC, video lan client, works great for avi and some other
movie types that quicktime won't handle. Will play mpeg2
files as well if you don't have the quicktime plugin. It is
free and works well on most any platform. Just do a
search for "video lan client download"

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Response Number 4

Name: Big Mac
Date: November 6, 2004 at 18:27:42 Pacific
Subject: avi player?

Reply: (edit)

I tried to play it in QuickTime but it still
can't. The AVI movies has a MP42 codec. I
don't know why quicktime doesn't support
that?

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Response Number 5

Name: schnub
Date: November 9, 2004 at 07:23:31 Pacific
Subject: avi player?

Reply: (edit)

quicktime does not normally come with the codecs for avi.
You need to download some divx codecs... last I heard the
mac version was called 3ivx, but there might be
something more performing now... oh and you'll probably
need to download a whole load of other sharewares with it
but divx.com should tell you what to do
schnub

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