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Title: How Do I Play AVI files?
Post by: amk285nyu on April 28, 2003, 08:08:00 PM

I'm sorry for posting what is probably a hackneyed topic, but the search wasn't working for me.

Anyways, does anyone know how you do this? I'm on Jaguar, and I have Quicktime 6.1, but it doesn't play ANY .avi files for me. One of my friends explained a convloluted process of launching Classic or Virtual PC, but there's gotta be an easier way. I can't find an OS X program like the old avi to Quicktime converter.

So how do I do this? Thanks everyone.

Title: How Do I Play AVI files?
Post by: kelly on April 28, 2003, 10:47:00 PM

Turned up this thread.  

AVI Thread

Title: How Do I Play AVI files?
Post by: Al on April 29, 2003, 12:35:00 AM

If it's a normal .avi file, you can use Windows Media Player for OS X to play it.

But, divx files also use the .avi extension and won't play on Macs version of WMP.

What usually works is a program called VLC (video lan client).  That should play most of the .avi's out there (95%+).

VLC can be located on versiontracker.com.

Title: How Do I Play AVI files?
Post by: amk285nyu on April 29, 2003, 02:16:00 AM

Thanks Al, I'll definitely use that. I don't like the Windows Media Player for Macs because there's such a delay when you move around in the video, and the quality is poor, especially when it has to remap the majority of the pixels when cutting between unlike images. Also, it hasn't worked with most of the AVI files I've tried.

I'm headed over to Version Tracker now. Fingers crossed, as always.

Title: How Do I Play AVI files?
Post by: whisper on April 30, 2003, 01:51:00 AM

Here's what I use aside from the already mentioned vlc
mplayer  divx doctor  ffmpegX  DivX® for Mac OS

Check out this nifty  movie player it plays multiple files with a lot of nice features.
 
 [ 04-30-2003, 02:58 AM: Message edited by: whisper ]