[bstone]

I have an AVI file which when I try to launch it, QuickTime 5 tells me that it is missing a compressor and is unable to display the video. The sound is just fine, but obviously I am interested in seeing the darn thing also.

Does anyone know a way around this? What if I would convert the AVI to be an MPEG? How do I convert an AVI to MPEG?

Thoughts? Suggestions?

Thanks!
Brad

[Cipher13]

You can't view it because you don't have the codec that was used to encode the video.

You do, however, have the required codec for the sound aspect.

This situation is a bitch, because any codecs can be used within an AVI.

Download all of the Intel Indeo codecs from Apple, and install them. All of them - they aren't different versions of the one codec, but different codecs.

Now, go get DivX Player and Windows Media Player 6.3, which will play most AVI's.

[Jansar]

Sometimes I have the same problem, except that I cn see the video, but cannot hear the audio. It helps to have a Windows computer in this situation (as much as I hate them), because they are the only systems that can actually play those files that cannot be possibly played on any Macintosh computer.