[X4U] .avi files: blank screen with Quicktime player

[Nick Scalise]

On Sep 11, 2005, at 1:06 PM, Germain M. wrote:

> I dl some .avi files but to my surprise, Quicktime player doesn't  
> read them. I can hear the sound but the screen in the window player  
> is snow white. A visit at Apple site suggests some other players  
> like VCD X. Same thing with this player. I don't know a thing about  
> codecs and things like that. What is there to do to have Quicktime  
> player show them?
>
> Here's what the "Info on sequence (french) " window of Quicktime  
> player tells me: "MPEG de couche 3, Stéréo, 24,000 Khz
> XVID, 512 x 384, Millions".

Good job on discovering the Codec. As you can see this file is using  
the XVID codec for video and MPEG Layer 3 for Audio.

If you want QuickTime Player to play them you should download and  
install the XVID codec here:
<http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~naegelic/index.php>

Or the DivX codec from here:
<http://www.divx.com/divx/mac/>

Or you can use VLC from here:
<http://videolan.org/>

Or you can use MPlayer from here:
<http://mplayerosx.sourceforge.net/>

At this point there seems to be some compatibility issues with DivX  
and QuickTime 7. So it's probably best to use VLC or Mplayer for the  
time being.
--
Nick Scalise
nickscalise at cox.net