[dspiel]

Updated to Panther last week, and now with Quicktime 6.4 I can no longer open avi movies--they were fine in earlier quicktime with Jaguar.
Any fixes, or recommended apps that can play avi movies?

[Jacke]

Yes, unfortunately quite a lot of people seem to be having the same problem. I haven't seen a fix for it yet, but you can always use VLC or MPlayer (Versiontracker lists two of it, don't know which is better).

[dspiel]

Unfortunately, neither application works well. I'm running an iBook G3/500, plenty of RAM but still on the very low end. Panther generally has increased speed. But neither suggested app to watch avi films works...audio is fine but video is a disaster.
Pity, as QT 6.3 played avi just fine. Anyone know of other apps, or have any suggestions? The qt 6.3 reinstaller works only on jaguar--won't allow downgrades from 6.4 when running panther.

[geekwagon]

Do you know what format the audio and video are in the problem .avi files? If QT Player will load the file at all, you can get that info from the "Get Movie Properties" option in the Movie menu.

I just ask because I am not having any problems with any of my .avi's under Panther (ones encoded in DiVX/MP3, XViD/MP3, etc..)

And I agree with you on VLC and MPlayer, they definately use more CPU than QT on playback. MPlayer especially. VLC seems to use some hardware acceleration on video out, but MPlayer doesn't seem to at all on OS X.

[GoGoReggieXPowars]

Originally posted by dspiel:
Any fixes, or recommended apps that can play avi movies?

If you had installed the DiVX or other 3rd party plugins, you'll have to reinstall them, or use DiVX Doctor II to convert them to .mov files (not really recommended unless you're having serious troubles playing them). That's really what it boils down to.
Linky: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.p...30825045710515
with a bunch of plugins listed below in the comments area. HTH!

[larkost]

Just to be pedantic... most of the .avi files that are floating around the internet are really divx files wrapped in and .avi file with .mp3 audio. This is not really an .avi file, but is a common bastardization of the format. Apple has said that they would like to support some of the divx codecs in quicktime, but cannot do so because they use stolen ideas from Microsoft (the format was taken from an early beta of the format Microsoft wanted to have as the MPEG 4 format).

[VEGAN]

Has anyone tried the new DivX release? any bugs? should I go ahead and install it?