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VLC will, quicktime will with perian installed, I think plex will.
Now, there are certain avi's that won't play due to the codec used for the video/audio (ie: vp61 codec) and any container/codec that supports windows DRM, if the windows media player DRM is attached, won't work (ie: if you have a drm .wmv file it won't play AFAIK).
Now, there are certain avi's that won't play due to the codec used for the video/audio (ie: vp61 codec) and any container/codec that supports windows DRM, if the windows media player DRM is attached, won't work (ie: if you have a drm .wmv file it won't play AFAIK).
wow okay well if am honest i don't understand most of what u said although i would love to. these files are on my external hard drive and when i play them on the laptop the work (vista) but when i pluck them in to the mac pro they wont play.
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What he said was to download Perian, which adds support for most types of .avi files:
Perian - The swiss-army knife of QuickTime® components
If that doesn't work, try VideoLAN Client (VLC). It's an alternative to Quicktime for playing videos.
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
Also install Flip4Mac (the freebie version). This will let you play back some .wmv type of videos.
Telestream Flip4Mac WMV - Overview
Between all these, if it won't play, you likely are SOL. There are a few types of encodings that are supported only in Windoze.
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