Play AVI DivX codec Movies on Quicktime in Mac OS X Leopard

good post. But I really just need A52 component and Xvid, copy to /Library/Components and all works.

One question, u know something about mpga audio codec?

Wow! Just when I was at a low point I discovered your post. I had already found the Xvid component (not realizing it was only for video) and was frustrated to get audio only on some AVI files. Goggle found your post for me, and thanks to you, I downloaded the A52 and AC3 components and now have audio AND video!

I just need to say that I’m constantly amazed by the generosity of people like you who post helpful information like this. You didn’t have to post this, but you did, making my life (and hopefully others’) easier and more enjoyable. Thank you VERY, VERY much!

Thanks so much very helpful! im new to using a Mac you’ve saved me from pulling my hair out!

Hi

Great Post!

I also stumbled across this and thought it might be my saving grace!

All connected to my TV/Decoder:

I get video (AVI’s) - no problem
I get DVD’s through Front Row (with AC3/5.1) - no problem
I get System Sound - no problem
I get iTunes Music (sound) - no problem

But can I get sound my AC3 encoded (via handbrake) AVI files - No - Urrggghhh!

Can you think of anything I could try?

I have made your recommendations and I have also followed this great link :

http://geekwithfamily.com/2007/07/05/home-theater/howto-5-easy-steps-to-output-dolby-digital-from-quicktime-player/#more-228

But still AC3 Sound escapes me.

Any help, much appreciated.

Scott

Ok, I installed the A52 codec in both the library/Components and the Library/audio/plug-ins/components directories. Then I rebooted the Mac just to make sure they took. Still no audio.
In other words I am having the same luck as Scott.
The Video file I have was created with a flash to Xvid converter program on an IBM. According to Gspot the audio codec is MPEG (MP1/MP2), ISO/IEC. I am beginning to think this converter is a piece of s..t because it really seems odd to me that it wouldn’t use the A52 codec. So my next step is to find an MPEG codec to shove into quicktime.
I have VLC player loaded and it works great.
Anyway Scott you might want to try another DivX movie. Get a demo from somewhere.
If any of you geniuses have any other ideas I would sure love to hear them.
Thanks,

Have you guys given Perian a try? I ran into an issue trying to play mkv HD video files and it seemed like Perian (a collection of various codecs packaged into an easy to install package) was the solution of choice for me. Here was my short post on that: http://installingcats.com/2008/01/01/play-mkv-movies-on-quicktime-in-mac-os-x-leopard/

In regards to my post above. I found that the converter I was using is converting audio to Mpeg, which, for some reason does not work with my quicktime. It does function with the VLC because the VLC has the proper codec loaded.
After digging around and trying several converter programs I found that the AVS4YOU will do the conversion. It is the only converter that I found that allows you to select the codecs you want! The MP3,ISO MPEG-1 Layer 3 works great in my quicktime. I think, but I am not sure, that it uses the A52 codec, if not it is using one that comes in quicktime.
The following converters, in my opinion, are junk. They use oddball codecs, and there is no way to change them: YouTube FLV to AVI suite Pro and APlusFLV2DivX. The Aplus converter is so bad that not only didn’t it work in quicktime, in failed to function in WMP 9 and Gspot failed to recognize the video codec at all. Whoever makes that sould be….
The movies I have made with AVS4YOU work on both Quicktime and WMP9 with standard DivX codecs. They are fairly compact and appear to stream well on my IBM Servers.
The only disadvantage is AVS4YOU is IBM only.
Cheers,
Ringo

Nice one mate… worked a treat. Thanks

This worked for my video just fine but the audio was still an issue until I downloaded perian and then it all worked. Thanks for posting this!

GREAT! Thanks a lot for the much needed codec. Worked perfectly!

Great. Thanks so much. I have not been able to play .AVI files on Mac OS 10.4.11 for 6 months - very depressing as I like the camera very much (fuji finepix S5700) and I was not looking forward to bringing it back.. anyway, the codec here has solved the problem.. nice one.

great post, only thing is that installed both the components and still nothing works. any ideas whats going on?

Hi,

My problem is related to VLC maybe is not the right post where should i ask but still..
I use VLC because it has Subtitles engine and is quite easy to use it. I never figured how in the world I could have subtitles in Quick Time - *.sub not *.srt files. But after i downloaded the latest VLC version I observed that my VLC player freeze after a few seconds of playing.
Do you have some ideeas?

Thankx!

Hello!

After doing all the suggestions, I made simply two things. But it only worked after the second one:

1. Installed a plugin called Perian
2. Upgraded Dix X Codec to Div X Pro on the System Preferences Window

Right after I’ve done this, the sound simply came back. I noticed that from the 180 days testdrive Codec I had only 15 days left. After inserting the Serial Key, it gave me unlimited use, hence the SOUND CAME BACK!

Hope it helps.

This worked like a charm! Thanks for the post!

This was great. Really appreciate the great explanation, the links and how it works. 5 out of 5 stars for this work!

Thanks for Perian! Deckard u saved my life. Thanks

Congrats on a good post and considering how much I like and use Quicktime, I must say that VLC is far easier and convenient for playback.

It’s also free as a bird and takes far less CPU time

Perian finally got audio for me in my avi files thanx!

Thanks so much! I followed your instructions and finally got my dvds to play! Well done on an excellent post

Thanks for this explanation, Leopard. I installed the Xvid quicktime component for mac but still couldn’t see the video of avi files. Any suggestion? Thank you!

downloaded both and still dosnt work?! any ideas!? hmmm

just downloaded perian also and it still dosnt play .avi!!!! any suggestions!

I could not figure out what was going wrong, but this fixed my lack of audio problem. Thanks for posting this!

Thanks for the post. Didn’t work for me originally, so I installed Perian, which worked like a charm.

perian still dosnt work for me? do i need to delete the other 2 downloads for it to work?

i cant get the audio to work!!!

i tried installing perian.. then going to the old perian 1.0 and then installing the new divx and taking the new divx off and of course the 2 codecs u put above but the audio still wont work… PLEASE HELP I NEED THE AUDIO for home videos…..

please help me fix thisssssssssssss

Top man….. Thank you very much !!

Just brought my Macbook 2weeks ago and it nearly went out the window after downloading movies, and not getting any sound…..lol

Thanks again

Jackson

I have both but QT stiil no audio, I usually play on VLC and it works fine. Now my problem is when i burn them to DVDs and when i tried to play them on my DVDplayer no sound comes out just like in QT

Thanks a lot!!!
Now I can use on my MAC only 1 player instead of VLC for .avi files and quicktime for other video formats.

Thank you so much! This is a great post! Really helpful! Keep on posting!

Great stuff! Instructions on the original post work great!!! Thanks for the info!!

Fantastic and easy to follow installation instructions. I could not get video or audio before, and after installing the components, i got video!!!

Then I installed Perian, and I got audio as well. No need to reboot my macbook, just re-open Quicktime.

Thankyou so much, you guys are tops!!!

Perian worked like a charm!!!! Thanks Deckard!!

Thanks a lot. Great article, very helpful

this article was really helpful. thanks

Perian did the trick. Cheers.

I Did all this but I still don’t receive any sound

Hello

I was having the same problem as everyone else which is SOUND does not work on QUICKTIME only when trying to play an .avi file (films/videos)

After Installing the Codes the this poster advised - This did not solve the problem for me like a few other people, I followed the guy who posted this advice hereunder:

1. Installed a plugin called Perian
2. Upgraded my DixX Codec to DivX Pro which is in the System Preferences Window

and sound has returned, i’m not sure which of the 2 solved it as I was in a hurry to try all avenues so i tried everything and then restarted quicktime and voila.

SOUND NOW WORK, PROPS FOR POSTING

Cheers

thanks a lot: only problem, I don’t have any QuickTime folder in my Library (!!). SO I created one and it works… don’t ask me how. Do you have any suggestions?

and also: how to read MPEG and WMA files?

thanks again

I found that just installing the DivX Codec (http://www.divx.com/divx/mac/) worked best for me! If you installed the
Quicktime Video Codec - Free Xvid Quicktime Component for DivX codec avi files
and the
Quicktime Audio Codec - A52 avi audio codec for Quicktime
like the original post suggests. Then, delete those files. although the Quicktime Audio Codec - A52 did not affect the playback of the avi movie I would remove it to avoid possible problems in the future. I would rather only have a few components in the “/Library/QuickTime/” folder for future troubleshooting, than to deal with an abundance of possible problem components.

thanks so much!! worked perfectly

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
I just got a mac and was searching for the past two days on codecs and I had similar files but NO DIRECTIONS on how or where to put/install them.
So thanks again

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I downloaded all sorts of things, , , sometimes there was video but no sound, sometimes the video was flashing, and finally, thank God, I tried Perian alone, and my videos work perfectly.
Thank you

Perian worked for me when the A52 codec mentioned in this article did not.

Perian also worked for me. It does seem to make a difference whether or not you remove older codecs as Perian suggests (http://perian.org/#support). I didn’t do this the first time I installed Perian and had no luck. I went back, uninstalled Perian (you need to go to System Prefs > Perian and click on General > Remove Perian) removed an old divx codec, reinstalled Perian and now my AVI movies play with audio and video (How novel! Thanks for nothing, Apple!). Of course, the next time Apple upgrades QuickTime, this will probably all break again. As Joe Biden might say about Apple “I love ‘em. God bless their hearts. But why do they have to fix what’s not broken.” Anyway, thanks for the help here! YOU ROCK!

Thank YOU!

Thats F***ing brilliant!! thank you very much.

Thanks Holmes..

Great stuff! I downloaded the XviD component and the A52 audio codec and those were no problem. BUT I’ve got one BIG problem…QuickTime is not in my library. What haven’t I done right?

If it’s not a DivX file—and if you’re adventurous enough to step outside the comfy confines of QuickTime— I recommend trying either MPlayer OS X or VLC Media Player. These excellent and free multimedia players can tackle many of the video formats unknown to QuickTime. My favorite is MPlayer OS X. I’ve thrown nearly every type of AVI file I could find at it, with great results. It also lets you use the arrow keys to skip backward or forward during playback—a feature QuickTime doesn’t offer.
http://www.moviesmac.com/tutorial/avi-converter-mac.html#121

http://www.videolan.org/

I just bought a mac book and trying to go from vista to leopard isn’t easy for me but if I had 10 thumbs they’d all be for you!

worked fabulous for me, thank you!

thankyou very much! its taken me all week to finally find something that works. your a champion!

Great instructions. Thanks for a quick fix.

Thanks for this! Finally able to view .avi files.

Great post.

Nice guide, thanks for sharing, and you can convert avi video to mov video, then you can play it on quicktime.
http://macvideoconverter.mac-dvd.com

SUCH A GOOD TUTORIAL.

THANKS A TON!!!

Thank you for this! It fixed all of my issues quickly and easily.

I’ve copied the files to the correct folders and reopened QT. For some weird reason, all I get is a black screen with no audio. Anyone had this problem?

Thank you for the great post. I’m having a bit of a problem.

I tried to play an avi (xvid) file on Quicktime. No audio, perfect video resulted. So I read this post. Got the video codec (since the audio seems to be included in Perian now, which I have).

Played the file: great audio, jumpy and then frozen video. I tried reloading Perian. Is there somewhere I can just get the audio codec listed here? Is there another course of action I should take?

Never mind, the problem was fixed by taking the advice from the comments and downloading VLC http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

- it’s working perfectly now.

You’re still getting raves more than a year after posting this. You can include mine. Thanks so much!

Thanks a lot! work well for me, solve two problems at same time~

Thank you very much for your post! Apple support for this (no audio in avi files) was bad, but You are Great! Also, iDVD it was freeze when it worked with avi files. Solve two problems at same time! Thanks a lot Again.

Thank you so much for the information. I looked everywhere on the web… no results. But now with your advice everythings fine.

Thanks!!

Swwwweeeet dude!

Thanks a mil! :o)

On the spot! Many thanks for your time! With guys like you, there’s hope for the human race after all!

I just want to say thank you so much. This was very helpful! My quicktime player was only telling me that I needed the XviD and said nothing about needing to download something for audio. I was very bummed when my movies were playing at last but with no sound. So thanks!
xo

Awesome. Saved me a bunch of trouble. Thanks

gracias man!

Singularly the most helpful piece of Mac advice I’ve ever read - works perfectly. I wish you a long and joyous life.

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Thank you! you made my day!

Thank you so much!! This article and Peruin saved my life!

Hi !
this post was just great ! Tks! Finally it works for sound and video.

Would anyone know how we can have either (or prefereably both) DivX Player for Mac or Quick Time intepret .srt (subtitles) files?

Rds,

I know its repetitive, but, the shit works. I was trying to watch AVI files before, that even paid Flip4Mac couldnt get to run. Found this, 5 minutes later, I’m up and running. Incredible.

THANK YOU! THIS FIXES the black screen! THANK YOU AWESOME POST

Just to repeat what everyone else has said - THANK YOU!!! I was about to pull my hair out and give up.

Thank a lot for your help saved me there XP

You can also use Elmedia Player to play AVI format encoded with DivX.

http://mac.eltima.com/media-player.html

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Thanku Thanku Thanku ,Being new to macs your site was so helpful to me i have a lot of avi files some would play some wouldn’t i followed your instructions to the letter and now they all work and Thanku again
Its sites like yours that really help people and i appreciate the time that you spend doing this
Cheers

THANK you so much, worked an absolute TREAT, very simple and your instructions were too easy!!! :)))

Thank you sooo much, this was a great help for me

Thanks so much! Worked like a charm, and your instructions were very clear!

I Finally got it working Thankfully but The A52 component I had to download by itself, as the link given above only takes you to the site that says is now only maintained in perian, and to download perian.

I have included the link to download JUST the A52 codec part of perian below;

Quicktime Audio Codec - A52 AVI Audio Codec For Quicktime
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/21875/a52codec

I am running Mac OS X Mountain Lion and Quicktime 7 Pro and this work for me (Just remember to read and it should for you too).

Thanks for all your help!!!

thanks!! was really really helpful!!!