[CUBE] Off topic: AVI

[Peter Stein]

Joel,

Just like with quicktime, there has to be consideration of the many
different codecs that exist within the AVI spectrum. Since OS X/Quicktime
does it's best to be current (and I don't have Panther to know any 10.3
stuff) I don't guarantee anything but it is possible one of the codecs
previously installed did not survive the "archive and install".

Open the AVI file in quicktime, ignore the error. 'Get Info/Properties
(apple-J)' for the AVI from within Quicktime. Choose 'Video Track' on the
left, then 'Format' on the right. What type of Data format is the movie?

Possible culprit codecs:
DivX
Windows Media Codecs

You can go to DivX for your updated codec... http://www.divx.com/divx/mac
You can download the latest WMP v9... (long URL - combine to use)
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads.aspx + 
?pid=download&location=/mac/download/misc/winmp_osx.xml +
&secid=80&ssid=8&flgnosysreq=True

There is more to this but I would rather link than get too deep this early.

Hope it helps,

stein


-----Original Message-----
From: Cube List [mailto:Cube at lists.themacintoshguy.com] On Behalf Of Leif
Joel Örell
Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2004 1:44 PM
To: Cube List
Subject: [CUBE] Off topic: AVI


Hi Cube-users,

I used to be able to play AVI films on my Cube but now it's not working.
I have reinstalled OSX 10.3 to get rid of some strange behavior, I did 
"Archive and install" and kept my user files.
The old system was also kept as previous system. When everything worked 
fine I deleted Previous System and now AVI files doesn't work in 
Quick-Time. There must have been a AVI plugin in the old System that 
enabled me to view AVI films, but Quick-Time says it cant find any 
plugins that will work with AVI files.
Where do I go fore an AVI plugin and are there other plugins that I 
need for viewing other formats?
Are there different qualities?

Joel