Quicktime problems

[macOSX-tastic]

hi all,

i dont seem to be able to play .avi flies in quicktime pro. it comes up in the quicktime box, with a white screen and a message coming up saying that some required software is missing. i click ok, and quicktime takes me to this apple website where the names of several 3rd party codec companies are listed. link below:

http://www.apple.com/quicktime/resources/components.html

im not sure which codec i have to download when i get to this website.

does anybody have any guidance as to what i need to have in order to play .avi's?

(i have quicktime pro and VLC, which the video plays perfectly in FYI)

thanks

S

 

[robbieduncan]

AVI is just a container format (like QuickTime). You need to know what codec was used to encode the content within the AVI. Likely candidates are probably DIVX and XVID.

 

[MisterMe]

hi all,

i dont seem to be able to play .avi flies in quicktime pro. it comes up in the quicktime box, with a white screen and a message coming up saying that some required software is missing. i click ok, and quicktime takes me to this apple website where the names of several 3rd party codec companies are listed. link below:

http://www.apple.com/quicktime/resources/components.html

im not sure which codec i have to download when i get to this website.

does anybody have any guidance as to what i need to have in order to play .avi's?

(i have quicktime pro and VLC, which the video plays perfectly in FYI)

thanks

S

Download and install the DivX 6 codec.