[X4U] QuickTime Codecs

[Nick Scalise]

On Jan 5, 2006, at 4:51 PM, Stroller wrote:

> On 5 Jan 2006, at 20:24, Michael Elliott wrote:
>
>> Sorry i'm getting to this on my laptop, so this has already  
>> probably been answered.
>
> Nope, no other joy on this thread.
>
>> All of those codecs listed on that page are sort of...exotic, at  
>> least for me.  Are you sure that this is just a "regular" video  
>> file that you're trying to open?  Could it possibly be an AVI file  
>> from the Windows world?
>
> I can't remember for sure now, but I don't think so. I certainly  
> now have WMP installed & double-clicking on .avi files currently  
> runs those.
>
>> Many AVI files are playable with VLC (an alternative media  
>> player), but many are not playable because the needed codecs don't  
>> exist for the Mac.
>
> Yeah, I know about VLC. But I'm pretty sure I've seen things like  
> installers for DivX codecs for Quicktime.

There are no packaged DivX codec installers that I know of. Yet,  
there are only 2 DivX codecs that I know of anyway.

DivX:
http://www.divx.com/divx/mac/

3ivx:
<http://www.3ivx.com/>

These are kind of competing codecs and so I don't think that either  
would want to be in the other's installer package. Unless I am  
misreading what you are looking for...

One last thing, are you sure you can get .avi's to play in WMP? I  
never have been able to.

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Nick Scalise
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