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Video Playback Question

aaron.lee2006

aaron.lee2006

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Ok so I ant to play some movies from my old pc on my new mbp. Avi isnt supported so doesn;t anyone know of any good codecs? Especially for frontrow? I got video for quicktime to work but there was no audio🙁 Thanks in advance.
 
I'm a rather new mac user and I was faced with a similiar problem in the beginning. At first I used VLC media player to play the files, it plays pretty much anything you throw at it, but it doesn't really integrate with Mac very well. Then I installed DivX for Mac and XviD codec for Mac and pretty much all my files started to work in QT/Frontrow!

http://www.divx.com/divx/mac/
http://www.xvidmovies.com/codec/
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

For playback of WMV files, I had to install Flip4Mac, I think. Can't find the link for it though

Hope it helps! 🙂
 
There was a link to a flip4mac beta that supported intel posted somewhere on this forum. That's what I installed on my MacBook. I did a quick search and found a topic with a link to the beta version and the link seems to work. I believe it is the version I used on my Mac. I'm not sure, though.

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/217040/

Again, I hope it's of some use. 🙂
 
Sorry to be a pain but how do I open sit files? I have vlc but I want to try that codec divx for mac didn't work for me. The video would play but the sound qouldnt 🙁
 
aaron.lee2006 said:
Sorry to be a pain but how do I open sit files? I have vlc but I want to try that codec divx for mac didn't work for me. The video would play but the sound qouldnt 🙁
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you need stuffit expander. its free! a .sit is a compressed file.

Link Here
 
aaron.lee2006 said:
Video now plays but there is still no sound!! Anyone else have any ideas?
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1) Have you go the sound off?
2)Make sure that the sound is up on quicktime.
3)Have you tried the video in VLC? maybe its the file that doesn't work?
4)It may be the fact that you need another codec? I will have to think about this!
 
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