Thank you- what fun to get the help I need from Brazil! (We are oap's and my husband thinks it is 'magic'!!) Downloaded VLC video player - and it worked... Saw and heard my grandson - great - but then it stopped and said my computer is too slow.! So it proved I need the new mac for my birthday. Any views anyone on new macs. thought of the new combination imac but still not sure. I am on old g4 with 108 hard disc, but only 400 Mhz System 10.3.9 Rosemary > >> My son sent me three video attachments >> which I cannot open, >> I suddenly noticed that they are AVI - but am not sure what this >> means, >> or how I can open them. > Rosemary, > > try VLC Media Player: > http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-macosx.html > or MPlayer: > http://mplayerosx.sourceforge.net/ > Both programs play AVI files and a myriad video formats. > João Carlos de Pinho > São Paulo, Brazil > > > _______________________________________________ > X-Apps mailing list > X-Apps at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/x-apps > > Listmom is trying to clean out his closets! Vintage Mac and random > stuff: > http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984 > Rosemary_t at mac.com -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 1316 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/pipermail/x-apps/attachments/20060118/0df64a58/attachment.bin