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sek929 · Jan 7, 2001, 04:34 PM

Realplayer says it need additional things to dowload to update it so i can play these avi files. It does so restarts and when i open up the file again it asks to download and install the same goddamn additional things. Quicktime Pro open it but its 25 minutes of a white screen.

Are there any other good AVI players out there that i can download. Please respond asap. Thank you.

Ok news flash, quicktime won't open it cause it says it doesn't have the right video compressors.....which Sorenson online told me came with Quicktime 3 and 4......I have 5Beta, and when i serched my HD it foud nothing named sorenson. Do i simply need to downgrade to Quicktime 4?

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Cipher13 · Jan 7, 2001, 05:51 PM

http://mac.divx.st/

Try that - good luck

Cipher13

sek929 · Jan 7, 2001, 06:28 PM

Uhh the link works but it doesn't seem to be able to contact the server, i hope its just a temporary thing. Know of anywhere else i can download it from?

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Cipher13 · Jan 7, 2001, 08:03 PM

You've got mail...
You also need to download a copy of Windows Media Player 6.3.
I don't have that, sorry...

Cipher13

sek929 · Jan 7, 2001, 08:23 PM

Thanks alot man, but no dice, it opens the movie but its 25 minutes of whiteness with no video or audio. When i run the divx doctor thing theres a error. Nothing had worked, ive dowloaded all the damn video players i can and still not working. Quicktime says that it is missing files but they are not available on the server.......grrr, i need this to work to make sure the video i am about to burn to disc is of good quality and soo far only two of the 9 open up and play (they are.rm files).

Do i need to get a video converter? Jesus this is frustrating

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olePigeon · Jan 7, 2001, 08:52 PM

That's all bullcrap. Save yourself the headake (and about 10 crashes) and DON'T download Windows Media Player.

All you need is this 135k extension:

Intel Indeo Video 5.0
http://www.versiontracker.com/redir....ideo_5.smi.bin

Slap this in your extensions folder, restart, and you can read any .avi file with your QuickTime player.

sek929 · Jan 8, 2001, 07:21 PM

Oh i beg to differ, now it says that it couldn't play the movie because it reached the end of the file prematurely, also the some of the other ones i have are mpegs now, but they won't open on anything either.

Any idea of a sweet mpeg player that actaully works, or even still an .AVI one?

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noliv · Jan 9, 2001, 01:25 AM

There are several kinds of AVI files, If the indeo codec doesn't work, you must try to read the movie with WindowsMediaPlayer 6.3 and DivX;-)
If it still doesn't work, maybe it's a new kind of AVI that we still can't read on a Mac.

MPEG, If you have the Quicktime MPEG extension and that it still doen't read the file, it means that it's a MPEG2 or MPEG4 file. MPEG2 files must be decoded using MPEG2Decoder -> www.macdvd.org
MPEG4 files? maybe the DivX;-) player can read them...

noliv

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Cipher13 · Jan 9, 2001, 03:34 AM

OlePigeon, I already have that codec.
You have to understand that AVI is not a file format. It is a wrapper file, that you put movies and sounds into, if you know what I mean.
Please don't put down others suggestions so blatently - especially when you may be wrong (as in this case you are).
On another note you dont' even have to open WMP. DivX player merely uses the codec it has, never runs the app.

Cipher13