What Software To Watch Avi Vids On My Mac?

[hugh_b]

Hey guys, been trying to watch some avi file vids but they dont play on my apple mac book laptop. Anyone know what software i need to get them to work?? cheers-Hugh

[Barbra]

VLC media player?

[D a n n y. . .]

Hey guys, been trying to watch some avi file vids but they dont play on my apple mac book laptop. Anyone know what software i need to get them to work?? cheers-Hugh

try vlc player it works on my mac plays nearly every file il find link n edit once iv got it

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Edited April 3, 2007 by bigez_91

[philking]

Hey there fellow mac user

Here is a plug in that, once installed, will allow you to play almost any vid type in quicktime (which is standard on mac) including .avi. Also install this to be able to play .wmv files in quicktime.

As others have said, downloading VLC will be a back up plan - never harms to have a second media player installed.

Edit: Also, download and install this, which is the divX codec, meaning you can play vids encoded with that.

There you go, those are all the things you will need. Don't forget in future if you are searching for plug-ins like these, to put "mac" in your search so you get the right softwear.

Edited April 3, 2007 by philking

[Tomm]

I just use VLC. It plays everything apart from .wmv files. For those, you can use Quicktime (with the Windows plugin that phil linked to). However, I use NicePlayer, which is basically the same as Quicktime (it plays everything that QT can) but you can do fullscreen etc without paying for Quicktime Pro.

But I use VLC when I can. It's much better than QT. Full screen, faster, better controls etc.

EDIT: You don't need to download any codecs when you've got VLC. They're all already there (apart from wmv as I already mentioned).

EDIT 2: Actually it seems that the latest version of VLC for mac does actually play wmvs. So I think that should be all you need. Hooray, I'm downloading now

[JonMack]

I'd just advise Perian, Flip4Mac, and VLC

http://perian.org/

http://www.flip4mac.com/

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

Will do everything you need.

I'd also advise when searching for things to put "OS X" in the search rather than just adding "mac". Makes things a lot more specific.

Glad to see there is actually a bigger amount of people running Macs now. 3.5 years and counting for me :] and I'm only on my 3rd machine 8-)

Edited April 4, 2007 by MonsterJ