I have an iMac. I have Quicktime 5.0. I have Indeo 3,4, and 5 IN MY EXTENSIONS FOLDER and I've restarted my computer. When I drag an avi file into my Quicktime Player, it does one of two things. It either(this is the most common) does absolutely nothing, but starts the player and does not bring up the screen, or it brings up the screen and gives me the same bulls--- about me not having the right comprssor, when I clearly do have all the Indeo compressors offered in the Apple software database. What the hell is the matter???!!!! I am very angry because I've taken the time to hunt down the software, install it, read directions and everything, but still nothing works. I love Macs, but my faith in them is waning. Please, please, please, someone help me and don't give me any bulls--- about dragging the Indeo files into my Extensions folder, because I've done it. I'm looking for real solutions here, so please, no half baked, inept responses because I'm a man on a mission and have no time for monkeying around. I didn't pay good money for a computer that can't even play avi files, so please please only responses that are HELPFUL and will solve my problem. This is my last resort, so please don't let me down.

You're probably trying to view an AVI encoded with a different Indeo codec than what QuickTime supports. Have you tried (gasp!) Windoze Media Player for the Mac? p

Yes, of course. I have Windows Media Player 7 installed and it won't even highlight itself when I hover an avi file over it. It won't even open an avi file when I try "File, Open..." But there is something that concerns me. All the stuff that I have read about Indeo says that Quicktime 3 is required to use Indeo 3 and 4. Is it simply that Quicktime 5 can't use Indeo 3, 4, or 5? Please resond anyone!!!!!

While I haven't really done much with AVIs, I rather doubt that QuickTIme 4 or 5 *lost* the ability to use the earlier codecs. I think those codecs are old enough that Apple is simply cautioning users against using them with QuickTime 2.x, which was in wide distribution at the time they first came out. It should probably be read as "QuickTime 3 or higher." p

Ok, ok.......I downloaded an entire avi file, opened it up in my Quicktime player, and found what which codec was used. It was Div3, which is DivX and mp3 combined I found out. So after much searching I found a Divx codec for Macs, an Alpha version from the Divx site. With that in my extensions folder, I was able to get the video going but not the sound. Then I discovered that I had also downloaded a DivX Validator for the sound and I used it on my avi file. The familiar Quicktime file logo for my avi file became an avi file with just a "piece of paper" logo. That got both the sound and video to work simotaneously, but the sound is approximately one second behind the video. Do you know how to fix this, or is this just a drawback of being on the frontier path of Mac divx?

I tried using that Validator on many files, and apparently they became corrupted, because QuickTime reported a bug in the coding of the movie. Now, it did work on ONE movie, but now the picture disappears a third of the way into the movie. How does DivX explain