Avi movies in Mavericks

[TouchYourHead]

Hi all,

I have upgraded to 10.9. However, I found that I cannot preview AVI files with Quicklook and play AVI files with QuickTime with flip4mac any more. Is there any solution that I can resolve the problem? Thank you.

TYH

 

[madmacfan]

Hi all,

I have upgraded to 10.9. However, I found that I cannot preview AVI files with Quicklook and play AVI files with QuickTime with flip4mac any more. Is there any solution that I can resolve the problem? Thank you.

TYH

Quicktime player 7 still plays AVI files under mavericks. You can also use apps such as VLC for this purpose. As for the previews, Perian is currently not working in mavericks and there is speculation going around that there will be an update for mavericks, but thats not been confirmed.

 

[TGray]

Vlc

Facing same issue since I moved over to Mavericks.
VLC will play an AVI as long as all I want to do is listen to it.
Keep getting an error telling me some video converter has crashed - apparently it's some apple sandbox for avi according to Mr Google
Along with a few other new features I have with things not working I'm glad I upgraded.

 

[Wdw1532]

quicklook

I'm facing the same issue here.
I cannot preview any AVI, WMV after upgrading to mavericks.
I contacted Flip4Mac Telestream and this is what they said:

Thank you for contacting Telestream Desktop Support.

We apologize for the inconvenience you are encountering. Flip4Mac v3.2.0.16 will continue to work within OS X 10.9, but you will want to update your Flip Player to v3.2.1.2: http://dynamic.telestream.net/downloads/downloads.asp

With OS X 10.9, Apple no longer interfaces with QuickTime anymore, so Quick Look will not work with Windows Media files. We are hoping to come up with a workaround in the near future.

BUT if you guys find another piece of software that solves this issue please, please let me know.

I work on video editing and my clients require their files on WMV format and even though I can work around it, it was really nice to be able to quick look and preview.

 

[rayhigh]

Facing same issue since I moved over to Mavericks.
VLC will play an AVI as long as all I want to do is listen to it.
Keep getting an error telling me some video converter has crashed - apparently it's some apple sandbox for avi according to Mr Google
Along with a few other new features I have with things not working I'm glad I upgraded.

I'm watching an .avi using VLC on Mavericks right now.

 

[bwat47]

If VLC isn't working for you, try MplayerX. Just don't use the version in the app store, its outdated.

 

[UmarOMC]

I'm watching an .avi using VLC on Mavericks right now.

It's not about PLAYING the files, it's about PREVIEWING them in the Finder.

 

[ssls6]

It's not about PLAYING the files, it's about PREVIEWING them in the Finder.

Which was done with perian however perian has not been supported in the last few years and depreciated under Mavericks.