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playing .AVI files in quicktime

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I just switched over from pc to mac and a lot of my video files are in the .avi format which dont play in quicktime. Quicktime's site directed me to download an app from xvid which i could not get to work. I then found VLC which plays the files, however this is a different media player that I have to open separate from quicktime.

How can open my .avi files in quicktime?
 
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jmac01 said:
I just switched over from pc to mac and a lot of my video files are in the .avi format which dont play in quicktime. Quicktime's site directed me to download an app from xvid which i could not get to work. I then found VLC which plays the files, however this is a different media player that I have to open separate from quicktime.

How can open my .avi files in quicktime?
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have you tried flip4mac
 
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XVID & Quicktime

jmac01 said:
I just switched over from pc to mac and a lot of my video files are in the .avi format which dont play in quicktime. Quicktime's site directed me to download an app from xvid which i could not get to work. I then found VLC which plays the files, however this is a different media player that I have to open separate from quicktime.

How can open my .avi files in quicktime?
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If I recall correctly the XVID codec only supports MAC OSX 10.4 - look here for details. So if you are running anything higher, you will probably be out of luck. I had better luck with the DIVX codec.

I hope this helps.

Les
 

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