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Playing AVI on Quick Time
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Join Date: Jun 2005
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Hello,
I have just got the Lost Season 2 file to watch on my mac. It's a AVI extension and recognize by QuickTime. The only thing is that it is telling me that i need to add some component to the media player and redirect me to a Apple website page with many choices to choose from.
Any idea what i have to do? maybe add the divx codec or something.
thanks
Jules
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Eat More Fruit, Buy Apple
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A codec is a "coder/decoder." It handles changing the compressed data to something that can be displayed and vice versa. You only need the divx codec if Quicktime told you that's the one it needs.
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Originally Posted by ghporter
You only need the divx codec if Quicktime told you that's the one it needs.
Though IIRC Quicktime doesn't actually say anything about the codec it needs.
Install the DivX codec and see if that fixes it.
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AVI is a container format, not a codec. To see what codec it is, open it in QuickTime Player, then choose the "info" window from the Window menu.
Note that VLC or MPlayer will probably play it fine without you having to hunt down codecs.
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