get a divx codec for mac via versiontracker and throw it in your /library/quicktime. ones that work are the 3ivx d4 and ffmpeg divx. you'll also need to run the avis through divx-doctor (doctor.3ivx.com) to fix the sound because quicktime has an avi sound bug. I hope this helps, thomas am 30.07.2003 0:13 Uhr schrieb Macintosh Digital Video List unter MacDV at lists.themacintoshguy.com: > Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 17:55:07 -0400 > Subject: [MacDV] AVI Conversion? > From: Sean W.Gallagher <swg at greatertalent.com> > Message-Id: <5105ECB5-C20F-11D7-892A-000393D39930 at greatertalent.com> > > I've got this AVI that QuickTime will not open. It gives that standard > AVI message that it has a "compressor that quicktime does not > understand". Does anyone know of a program that will convert it? I > tried cleaner but it came out blank. I'm also trying to show up the PC > user that created it who told me that the reason I can't open the file > is that "Macs suck". > > -Sean