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Need Help Playing .avi Files.
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Join Date: Dec 2000
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Hi, I've downloaded a few racing movies that are in .avi format. Quicktime keeps telling me that a software component is missing and I can't play the file.
Does anyone know what I need to watch these movies?
Thanks.
Jeremy
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Nov 2002
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Download and use the free MPlayer OS X 2.
You can find it on versiontracker.
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...or the divx codec from Divx.com
PS. I can't find a way to skip around in a file with MPlayer. Am I missing something obvious? It seems like a player with no way to skip around and/or scrub is completely useless. It's the reason I always use VLC, even though everyone seems to recommend MPlayer.
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Originally posted by Uncle Skeleton:
...or the divx codec from Divx.com
PS. I can't find a way to skip around in a file with MPlayer. Am I missing something obvious? It seems like a player with no way to skip around and/or scrub is completely useless. It's the reason I always use VLC, even though everyone seems to recommend MPlayer.
you can scrub in MPlayer. just click and hold the fast forward/rewind buttons in the controller. the problem is, it goes really really really really fast, which kinda makes it unusuable for short files. i'd stick with VLC.
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Just tap the arrow keys in either direction to skip around and scrub.
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chown -R us:us yourbase
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I had the sam problem and the Dixv codec was a great fix... keeps evertyhing in quicktime
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VLC is great at playing avi files. If you want to still watch them in quicktime you can dl the divx codecs from versiontrackerand get divx doctor 2 this will convert the avi to mov without any degradation and will still rely on divx codes. you may need to do this so the audio will work in quicktime. Quicktime does at times have trouble with avi files audio even with proper codecs.
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Join Date: Nov 2002
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Another vote for VLC. Best program for viewing any sort of video file that qt doesn't support. Easy to flip back and forth through it, which mplayer makes more difficult.
J.
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VLC is excellent. It works for me every time.
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Mac Elite
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Have you tried the latest version of iMovie to play avi files?
My Canon S230 records in an AVI format of some sort and the latest version of iMovie works with these files beautifully.
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