is it at all possible to play divx codecs on a mac? I have a bunch of movies that wont play for me..... and I dont know how it happend, but my cdrom drive on my power book is indented so after you enter a cd you cant remove it.....

Sure..although my DivX all play without
problem for me in quicktime 6x in both OS9
and OSX, it could be because i have a couple
extra codecs added that add additional
formats support to quicktime ..
I can't recall specifically all the ones i
may have added, but in all probability it
would be the 3ivx one that enables the divx
-
you can find it here...for both OS9 and OSX
http://www.3ivx.com/download/macos.html

I should add that, as far as I know,
quicktime 6 actually *has* the 3ivx codec
integrated in it, and it may in fact , be
redundant to have another copy...if you're
using an earlier version of quicktime (say,
Quicktime 5x), you might need it, but then
on the other hand , you could just try to
find the latest version of QT that will run
on your version of OSX..since you didn't
specify either which version of OSX your'e
using, or which version of quicktime you
have, i can't be of much more help, except
to say that pretty much everything media
related is run thru quicktime, so it's
important to try to keep it updated
(hey..it's free after all !)..