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Sun 13/03/05 at 18:47
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"Royale with Cheese"
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Got the latest Quicktime 6.5.2 and downloaded everything else but still cant seem to play an avi. On Mac OS X 10.3.6 if that makes any diiference
Sun 13/03/05 at 18:47
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"Royale with Cheese"
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Got the latest Quicktime 6.5.2 and downloaded everything else but still cant seem to play an avi. On Mac OS X 10.3.6 if that makes any diiference
Sun 13/03/05 at 18:49
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what codec is it encoded with?
Get that codec, and it will play.
Sun 13/03/05 at 18:56
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"Royale with Cheese"
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You lost me at codec, how do I find that out?
Sun 13/03/05 at 19:38
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"8==="
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Get the avi manager to offer your side a friendly match.
Sun 13/03/05 at 19:42
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Could be a divx codec, try downloading the free divx player from divx.com

It should at least tell you what codec you need to play it.
Mon 14/03/05 at 10:33
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"serenity now!"
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Download VideoLAN Client (VLC) and it'll play pretty much any video file out there, no codecs needed.
Mon 14/03/05 at 11:33
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"Captain to you."
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search for 'windows media player classic' theres no install and the codecs are all built in, it plays dvds and can do subtitles.
Mon 14/03/05 at 13:07
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"bing bang bong"
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There are a few programs out there that will let you inspect a movie file to find out what codecs are out there. The only one I could find in the 0.1s Google time I devoted to it was this:

http://www.kcsoftwares.com/?vtb

Looks pretty swish, didn't download it though.
Mon 14/03/05 at 14:01
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GSpot is a good program for identifying codecs on PCs, dunno about Mac though.
Mon 14/03/05 at 23:49
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smv wrote:
> GSpot is a good program for identifying codecs on PCs, dunno about Mac
> though.

(A) that's what I was trying to remember and (B) oops, the original poster is using a Mac. Didn't read thread properly, sorry.

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