.avi extension

[CommonMan]

I'm new to Macs so please forgive my stupidity. Someone gave me a movie or video file with the extention .avi. It won't play on my iMac. Someone told me I need to buy Quicktime Pro for 30 buckaroonies in order to play such files. I just got a Video ipod so I want to try watching a movie on it. Do I need to buy some additional software? My iMac has just the basics.

 

[oceanmonster]

I'm not sure what the .avi file is but if you want to watch video on your ipod quicktime pro is a good application to convert the files to the ipod format.

 

[-DH]

AVI is a wrapper for many different web video codecs/formats - most used on Windows systems. VLC Player or the Mac version of Windows Media Player (both freeware) should play them.

-DH

 

[neonblue2]

Get the Perian codec for everything and Flip4Mac for Windows Media (DO NOT GET WMP!)

http://perian.org
http://www.flip4mac.com/