[G4] .avi extensions?

Tue Nov 8 11:39:20 PST 2005

>>> On 8-Nov-05, Hector I. Macedo wrote:
>>>
>>> I have downloaded a couple of .avi shorts that supposedly open  
>>> with QuickTime, but when I try to open them QuickTime tell me  
>>> that it lacks certain "extensions". I'm running 10.4.3 and the  
>>> latest update of QT. Any one knows what to do to open them?
>>
>> On Nov 8, 2005, Tony Gamble wrote:
>>
>> Sounds like they might have been encoded with a codec you don't  
>> have installed, such as DivX.  Get and install DivX from  
>> www.divx.com.
>
> On Nov 8, 2005, Hector I. Macedo wrote:
>
> Tony, I went to that site and the download is an .exe file that it  
> said was for Windows. Did not see anything about working with Mac.

The mac download starts at http://www.divx.com/divx/mac/divx6.php.  
It's just a codec, not a program. Not also that Divx 6 in not yet  
available for OS X and 5.x is not compatible with OS X 10.4.x or  
QuickTime 7.x

Phil