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AVI problems with Quicktime

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epb2001

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Feb 16, 2008
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Hi folks. New to Mac Forums and Macs in general. Just bought a brand new Intel iMac last night in fact. Anyway, my problem is playing AVI videos with Quicktime. Originally, I couldn't get the sound to work at all. I installed a few codecs and tried MPEG Streamclip. Streamclip originally worked and I was able to play the videos with sound, but no sound from Quicktime. However, after a reboot, both Streamclip and Quicktime play sound, but it's all sped up and distorted. Here's what Quicktime reports my format as:

Generic MPEG-4, 640 x 480, Millions
MPEG-1 Layer 2, Stereo, 44.100 kHz

I have the following components in Library/Quicktime:

AppleIntermediateCodec
AppleMPEG2Codec
DivX Decoder
DivX Encoder
Perian
XVIDDelegateMacOSX.sit
FFusion
XviD_Codec 1.0 alpha
Save as AVI


If you have any suggestions, let me know. Like I said, I'm brand new to Macs and I'm sure I messed something up here.
 
Its hard to say if your quicktime is fine or not.

However, I do recommend VLC media player, which is probably the best media player all around for OSX.
www.videolan.org/vlc/
vlc-win32.png
 
I think you might have too many things in there :)

I installed Perian and Flip4Mac. Between those two, there is almost nothing that my Quicktime cannot play. Consider uninstalling all your plugins, and then starting over again, this time with just Perian and Flip4Mac
 
So, I tried uninstalling everything but Perian and added Flip4Mac, but no luck. I then reinstalled the Divx codecs and removed Perian and it worked again in MPEG Streamclip, but still no sound in Quicktime. I read that Perian 1.1 has caused some problems so I tried 1.0. With that, I got audio for about a second with Quicktime before it disappeared and eventually Quicktime locked up on me altogether. I guess if Streamclip is working, that's better than nothing, but I would like to use Quicktime if at all possible.
 
Bonsai1214 said:
make sure you have the most up to date version of quicktime as well, because that works with perian to play almost everything.
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Yep, that's all up to date, but Perian seems to be creating more problems than helping. At the very least I can convert the files with MPEG Streamclip to a format Quicktime understands, but the file size triples (at least with MPEG-4 format). I'll have to play around with it some more to see if there's a more efficient format.
 
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