Which Quicktime plugin is needed?

[Silverfroth]

Ok - I have a massive stash of old family video clips that are in .avi format.

I have Quicktime and RealPlayer installed on my computer and I can't play the clips on either one of them.

When I try to play it in Quicktime I get a message that says i need a plug in - and it redirects me to the Quicktime plug-in page.

However, I have no clue which plugin to use and I'm hesitant to download and use all of them to figuer out which one to go with because I don't want to mess it all up.

Quicktime version: 7.1.3
Link to Plug-in Page: http://www.apple.com/quicktime/resources/components.html

Or = is there something else that someone would suggest, I'm up for anything.
A little help? Thanks.

 

[cradom]

Probably Divx: http://www.divx.com/divx/mac/

 

[NanoBite]

Ok - I have a massive stash of old family video clips that are in .avi format.

I have Quicktime and RealPlayer installed on my computer and I can't play the clips on either one of them.

When I try to play it in Quicktime I get a message that says i need a plug in - and it redirects me to the Quicktime plug-in page.

However, I have no clue which plugin to use and I'm hesitant to download and use all of them to figuer out which one to go with because I don't want to mess it all up.

Quicktime version: 7.1.3
Link to Plug-in Page: http://www.apple.com/quicktime/resources/components.html

Or = is there something else that someone would suggest, I'm up for anything.
A little help? Thanks.

Hi Silverfroth,

I found this link for you.....

http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/avidivx.html

 

[Silverfroth]

thanks, you two - much appreciated.

This place is great, I've had so much help from everyone - I never got that when I was a windows frumpkin.