[X4U] Re: Playing avi files on QT

[Wayne Clodfelter]

Pay attention, Eugene.
What you're saying, using way too many words, is that the answer is no, 
right? Once you figure out the codec, you're STILL not going to get it 
to play in QT. Why didn't you just say so?
And I still don't buy all this itty bitty unknown codec mumbo-jombo. 
That would imply that some avis use bigger well-known codecs, so they 
SHOULD play in QT. Right? Show me an avi, containing one of these 
bigger well-know codecs, that does play in QT.

On Jul 12, 2005, at 7:30 PM, Eugene wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 04:41:09PM CDT, Wayne Clodfelter 
> <wayne at troutnc.com> wrote:
> : On Jul 12, 2005, at 2:34 PM, Steven Rogers wrote:
> : >On Jul 12, 2005, at 1:14 PM, 
> x4u-request at listserver.themacintoshguy.com wrote:
> : >
> : >>How the heck do you play the avi files in Quicktime which is 
> supposed
> : >>to be such a multiple format player?
> : >
> : >AVI is not a video format, its a container format (kind of like
> : >QuickTime), so playing it depends entirely on what's inside. Asking
> : >that QT play it is kind of like demanding that a competent mechanic
> : >should be able to work on what's in your garage, just because it's 
> in
> : >there. AVIs can contain just about anything - like weird little
> : >proprietary codecs made by people who create novelty devices, like 
> the
> : >little pen cams. If you know where the file came from, that's 
> usually
> : >enough info to figure out what codec you need.
> :
> : Ok, Steven, and then what? Are you saying that by figuring out what
> : codec you need you can get the file to play in QT?
> : If you can do that, I'm ready to sign up for classes <g>.
> : As far as avis being weird little proprietary codecs (or containing
> : them), I don't really buy that, or they would give VLC and mPlayer
> : fits, too. With VLC and mPlayer, avis just work! Why can't QT do 
> that,
> : too?
> : Not why can't, I suppose; why don't they?
>
> Pay attention to what Steven said.  The reason that QuickTime Player
> doesn't play every AVI in the known universe because some AVIs are
> created with lesser-known codecs unavailable to the OS X platform as
> QuickTime plugins.  However, many of these lesser-knwon codecs *are*
> available via other 3rd-party software, such as the cross-platform apps
> VLC Player and mPlayer.  If you want to see these lesser-known codecs
> supported in QuickTime Player, you have some options:
>
> - beg Apple to add support for these lesser-known codecs
>
> - beg the VLC/mPlayer developers to write QuickTime plugins for these
>   lesser-known codecs
>
> - pay someone to write QuickTime plugins for these lesser-known codecs
>
> - learn to code, then do it yourself and write QuickTime plugins for
>   these lesser-known codecs
>
>
> -- 
> Eugene
> http://www.coxar.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/
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Regards,

Wayne Clodfelter
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