Tag: quicktime

  • Download divx for Mac

    To play divx videos or movies in QuickTime / Front Row on Mac OS X, you need to install a divx codec. If you open an .avi file and see only black, you likely don’t have a divx codec installed. Download a free divx codec for Mac here then following these walkthrough instructions on how…

  • Fix Front Row Crash while playing divx avi

    While watching a tv series encoded with divx, in avi package format on a Macbook installed with Leopard, I noticed that Front Row would randomly crash and return to the desktop. First step in investigating what was causing the crash is to look at the syslog. Open up Terminal (Applications => Utilities => Terminal) Go…

  • Play HD mkv Movies on Quicktime in Mac OS X Leopard

    Have an .mkv movie file? Wondering what the heck it is and how to play it? High Definition movies in 720 or 1080 pixel width format are often encoded and packaged as a Matroska format video with a .mkv file extension. Apple QuickTime doesn’t handle this format natively so you have to add a package…

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

    Quicktime under Mac OS X Leopard can’t play movie or video files saved in .avi format encoded with DivX format without a little help. Also if you get no sound from avi files on your Mac, the following avi audio codec will solve that problem for you. Here’s what you need to make Quicktime on…