[Johnnyboysmac]

Greetings all

After just celebrating the first birthday of my first ever Mac, being as I am a switcher and ex windows 'victim' I received the other day a CD-Rom disc of an assortment of short mpeg movies.

As I'm still on dialup, collecting trailers and such has not been of interest up till now because of the time and impracticality of downloading them, so I've had little or know experience with movies on the mac up till now.

Clicking on one of the files opens a movie in quicktime just fine, but I can't find a way to play them all sequentially at once without having to quit and reopen each one individually.

As I still have my old PC, I popped the CDR in the drive and copied them across to the HD, and then into Windows Media player 9, and made up a playlist. Voila, it plays a folder of the movies sequentially with sound and full screen.

Is there any way of achieveing this on the Mac? - short of installing Windows Media player, which I would prefer not to do, having an aversion to MS products at the best of times.

I only have the standard Q/T player - would upgrading to pro allow me to do this?

I don't really want to go through a rigamarole of say making up a DVD movie disc, just the ability to play a folder of short movies when the mood strikes.

All advice and comments appreciated

Cheers

John...

[proton]

MPlayer supports this.

- proton

[Jacke]

VLC also does it.

But Windows Media Player for Mac does not if that's what you thought. No, it doesn't even play MPEG movies. Or AVI files for that matter...

[Mithras]

You'll go blind, you know

[Uncle Skeleton]

Basically you're looking for a playlist movie player. QuickTime doesn't offer a playlist in any form, but since QuickTime is an application framework as well as an application, there are many apps that use the QuickTime engine to play movies in a playlist. Cellulo is generally known as the most polished of these.

[Johnnyboysmac]

Afternoon All

Thanks so much for the tips, it's much appreciated, and I now have Mplayer, VLP and Cellulo to try out.

Mithras, you're wicked.... I'm sprung..

I doubt that I'll go blind, but it won't be for want of er, trying...

Many thanks again

Best

Johnboi....