can't view AVI files.... help!
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Name: gregg
Date: April 3, 2002 at 09:57:25 Pacific
Subject: can't view AVI files.... help! |
Comment: does anyone know of some application to view .AVI files? apparently neither
Windows Media Player 7, nor QuickTime, nor AVI to QT utility will do it.
also, how do you join segmented movie files? do you have to buy "pro" software?
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Response Number 1
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Name: the pickle
Date: April 3, 2002 at 16:14:30 Pacific
Subject: can't view AVI files.... help!
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Reply: (edit)Sounds like you might need a DIVX
codec. Other threads here describe
similar problems and their solutions. p
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Response Number 2
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Name: gregg
Date: April 3, 2002 at 18:44:45 Pacific
Subject: can't view AVI files.... help! |
Reply: (edit)thanks. i went ahead and found DivX.com, and downloaded the software.
i also went from QT 4 pro to QT 5, as advised. still can't view .avi files. QT
still looking for the right compressor, can't find it. anybody got any other ideas?
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Response Number 3
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Name: Mux
Date: April 3, 2002 at 21:57:41 Pacific
Subject: can't view AVI files.... help!
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Reply: (edit)What kinda error message are you getting? I get a "Unable to find a compressor...blah blah"...just check what kinda video compressor was used to create the avi and download that...you can find out by checking the Movie Properties from QT i think. Most likely you need one of the Indeo Codecs. But even with that and DivX you wont be able to get any sound out of them...DivX says its Apple's fault and Apple says nothing :-(
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Response Number 4
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Name: macman_don
Date: April 4, 2002 at 08:21:15 Pacific
Subject: can't view AVI files.... help!
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Reply: (edit)gregg, email me and I will tell u what software you need. I have been viewing avi movies for awhile now on my G4 350. Don
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Response Number 5
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Name: the pickle
Date: April 4, 2002 at 11:55:10 Pacific
Subject: can't view AVI files.... help!
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Reply: (edit)Don - why not enlighten *everyone* and just post here? p
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Response Number 6
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Name: Libelula
Date: April 5, 2002 at 21:34:29 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)I've got about 6 codecs and players
(which convert and save as mov files.)
found them all on a google search. its a bit of hit and miss since these avi's
are in a variety of compressions. (got to
try all of them until the playback is
tolerable) hope that helps. quicktime sucks because of the limited
formats it plays (proprietary issues)
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Response Number 7
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Name: the pickle
Date: April 6, 2002 at 08:40:44 Pacific
Subject: can't view AVI files.... help!
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Reply: (edit)Pah. QuickTime is the best media platform out there, bar none. It plays back *far* more - and at better quality - than any other major media player. The problem is with the people who think DivX is a legitimate form of compressing movies *besides* those used in the now-dead DIVX DVD players. If people would just use real standards, we wouldn't have this problem. p
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Response Number 9
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Name: matt
Date: May 23, 2002 at 10:45:01 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)i downloaded some *.avi files, but i can only listen to them with windows media player, and not view them. is there any program at all to view them?
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