[G4] .avi extensions?

[James Pacyga]

First order of business is open them in QT, then do a GET INFO on the  
video.  You need to know what encoded it in order to figure out what  
codec you are missing rather than guessing that it is DivX, thought  
that could very well be it.  There are loads of formats out there.

Once you know what codec you need, you can try to find it.  Given  
that it opens in VLC (and probably mplayer) you can always transcode  
it using ffmpeg if you want to make it a QT compatible format.

jim

On Nov 8, 2005, at 11:09 , 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?
>
> Thanks
>
>
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