Author Topic: How Do I Play AVI files? (Read 1861 times)

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.

kelly · « **Reply #1 on:** April 28, 2003, 10:47:00 PM »

Turned up this thread.

AVI Thread

Al · « **Reply #2 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.

amk285nyu · « **Reply #3 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.

whisper · « **Reply #4 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 ]

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Author Topic: How Do I Play AVI files? (Read 1861 times)