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I have recently had to re-install everything on my MacBook Pro and have encountered a problem in that the movies that worked before are now mute.
Initially after re-install Quick time came up totally black as well.
I have since downloaded the Xvid and the DivX extras (as I did before) and now I can see the films but cannot hear them.
I've tried a number of my movies which are on an external hard drive so I believe that they are still intact.
I can see them in VLC but I prefer to watch them on quick time
(Sometimes VLC seems to stick on the video whilst the sound continues)
Any ideas?
 
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Yes I did install them
However you reminded me about flip for mac. had that before so I'll try that again
 
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How bizarre!
Installing flip for mac sorted the problem.
The problem files were AVIs not WMVs
I would have thought it would make no difference but you live and learn
 
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How bizarre!
Installing flip for mac sorted the problem.
The problem files were AVIs not WMVs
I would have thought it would make no difference but you live and learn

AVIs can have WMV codecs inside them. AVI is more of a "container" than a "format."

Glad that worked!
 

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