Best AVI Player for Mac

[King Apple]

I just downloaded a buncha .avi movies. I am new to mac osx.. wat do you guys reccomend 🙂

 

[costabunny]

my personal choice is VLC

 

[Peace]

Convert them to h.264.

AVI is a container that may have really old windows mpeg-1,mpeg-2 or a lot of other codecs inside it.

 

[jackerin]

AVI is a container that may have really old windows mpeg-1,mpeg-2 or a lot of other codecs inside it.

You will find a lot more AVIs with MPEG-4 video (or derivatives) than MPEG-1/2. I would rather recommend installing Perian, it can play most video formats, and for the few it can't (like the old Indeo Video) there are no OS X decoders; not to mention that converting it will only lose quality without any certain reduction in filesize.

 

[chrmjenkins]

my personal choice is VLC

Really is the be-all end-all if you want to play without converting.

 

[MisterMe]

I just downloaded a buncha .avi movies. I am new to mac osx.. wat do you guys reccomend 🙂

Download and install the Perian codec suite. You will then be able to use .avi files in virtually every MacOS X application.

 

[decksnap]

Another vote for Perian. Free, easy, Quicktime plays back AVIs flawlessly with this installed.

 

[Lola M]

One more vote for Perian. It will play virtually anything, including mkv.