[G4] .avi extensions?

[Hector I. Macedo]

Hi James, although for me you are speaking in chinese 8^)). what is  
codec and how do I use it?


On Nov 8, 2005, at 8:09 PM, James Pacyga wrote:

> 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

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