what's the best viewer for avi/mpeg?

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mooshoo

macrumors regular

Original poster

• Jul 14, 2004

• #1

What is the best viewer out there that is compatible with all formats of video/film clips? Quicktime doesn't seem to be able to play back half of the clips that I download! Windoze Player works occassionally. Any suggestions?

thnx!

 

Macmaniac

macrumors 68040

• Jul 14, 2004

• #2

Quicktime handles most formats well, but if you want to play AVI's download DIVX which has an AVI plugin for QT, some formats need there own separate player, so you may end up with Real Player, and Windows Media for some of the other formats.

 

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Dr. Zauis

macrumors member

• Jul 14, 2004

• #3

VLC is a good one that I use. Its free too. version tracker

 

krimson

macrumors 65816

• Jul 14, 2004

• #4

yup, the new VLC is excellent. try it for a while.

 

ChrisFromCanada

macrumors 65816

• Jul 14, 2004

• #5

see the link in my sig.

 

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rob118

macrumors member

• Jul 15, 2004

• #6

I prefer mplayer.
Plays back everything i've thrown at it.
Only drawback is that it sucks for playing back dvds (doesnt show menus)

 

maradong

macrumors 65816

• Jul 15, 2004

• #7

rob118 said:

I prefer mplayer.
Plays back everything i've thrown at it.
Only drawback is that it sucks for playing back dvds (doesnt show menus)

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i do like mplayer best as well, i must admit. IMHO it just got the better post-processing (which is highly subjecitiv)

 

SpaceMagic

macrumors 68000

• Jul 16, 2004

• #8

I use VLC, very good. Stay on top mode is great for surfing and watching everything (i say everything, because it plays literally every format I can think of).