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

By: Michael Galvin

Michael Galvin — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 14:53:33 +0000

worked fabulous for me, thank you!

By: Chiznatch

Chiznatch — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:06:22 +0000

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!

By: popo

popo — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 03:26:07 +0000

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/

By: Dr Sound

Dr Sound — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 20:30:39 +0000

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?

By: James Colestock

James Colestock — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 03:02:51 +0000

Thanks Holmes..

By: Luke

Luke — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:39:56 +0000

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

By: TCallis

TCallis — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 04:06:28 +0000

Thank YOU!

By: DonkeyHotay

DonkeyHotay — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:36:00 +0000

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!

By: Dean

Dean — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 20:16:14 +0000

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

By: MacBook Confused

MacBook Confused — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 03:52:02 +0000

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