[Minty Fresh]

Is there an Xvid codec available for Mac, or is there any way I can play my Xvid videos on my Powerbook?

[Groovy]

Originally posted by Minty Fresh:
Is there an Xvid codec available for Mac, or is there any way I can play my Xvid videos on my Powerbook?

vlc
mplayer
ffmpegX
3ivx

all play ISO mpeg 4 fine which Xvid is

[OwlBoy]

If you get the official DivX codec, then the XviD delegate it will play in Quicktime Player.

-Owl

[Minty Fresh]

Thanks! Checked out VLC, and it's pretty nice...even worked good with an ogm file, with subtitles!

[Minty Fresh]

Originally posted by OwlBoy:
If you get the official DivX codec, then the XviD delegate it will play in Quicktime Player.

-Owl

Hmmm...I have the newest version of DivX...5.1, right from the site. And everytime I play a Xvid file in Quicktime, I get an error...that the required compressor could not be found.

[OwlBoy]

Originally posted by Minty Fresh:
Hmmm...I have the newest version of DivX...5.1, right from the site. And everytime I play a Xvid file in Quicktime, I get an error...that the required compressor could not be found.

Like I said...

You need XviD Delegate...

here I'll find a link

http://www.insaneness.com/xvid.html

there.

Install that too.

Though if you are using .ogm, and subtile files then you might just wanna get use to VLC it is a great app.

-Owl

[Minty Fresh]

Originally posted by OwlBoy:
Like I said...

You need XviD Delegate...

here I'll find a link

http://www.insaneness.com/xvid.html

there.

Install that too.

Though if you are using .ogm, and subtile files then you might just wanna get use to VLC it is a great app.

-Owl

Ooooh, okay! Sweet....downloaded it, and I've finally got Quicktime playing Xvid! Thanks! And yeah...VLC is nice....might just use it from now on.

[Millennium]

XviD is nothing more than an MPEG-4 encoder. The nice thing about this is that, in theory, anything which can play MPEG-4 should be able to play XviD. This includes DivX, 3ivx, and the QuickTime Player.

Unfortunately, the reality seldom works out that well. DivX is MPEG-4, but since it uses a crap container format, it takes a fair amount of hackery to get it working on OSX. QuickTime plays MPEG-4, but XviD files don't often use the standard MPEG-4 container (they often use the respectable .ogm container or the damnable hellish rotten junk that is a broken hack of the already-awful .avi format; can you tell I don't like it as a container?), and this causes QuickTime to choke. 3ivX depends on QuickTime, and so it tends to choke too.

There are ways around all of this, of course. There are other players for the Mac which deal with the different container formats. There are extensions for the QuickTime Player which will allow it to use .ogm, which many XviD files use. There's also DivX Doctor, which will carry the data from the evil broken pseudo-avi files into a real container format (the video data itself does not change, so there is no loss in quality because it's the same data as before).

[Uncle Skeleton]

you forgot to mention that the DivX codec will allow QuickTime to open avi-ish things that have mp3 audio