Playing multiple file formats

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Clark C

macrumors member

Original poster

• May 4, 2003

• #1

I'm looking for a player that will play avi's and other file formats. Quicktime doesn't play all avi's and my avi-to-mov converter turns some movies all green. Is there a good player out there?

 

iJon

macrumors 604

• May 4, 2003

• #2

try mplayer, its great. you can get it at versiontracker.com

iJon

 

Freg3000

macrumors 68000

• May 4, 2003

• #3

Or VLC. Also at versiontracker.

 

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uhlawboi80

macrumors 6502

• May 4, 2003

• #4

ive had the best luck with VLC. and after its last revision it doesnt get the voice off sync when you do other operations like it used to and i have had mplayer do.

 

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Clark C

macrumors member

Original poster

• May 4, 2003

• #5

Is there anything else? Is there any add-ons for quicktime? VLC is fine except it has a lot of lag time while waiting for a movie to start. Also on VLC while trying to skip ahead further in a movie, it just sits and processes forever (1-2 min) before actually playing. Mplayer is good, except that you can't fast forwards or rewind. Why can't Apple just make quicktime play these formats?