One thing that always has bugged me with MacOSX is that in order to get sound with the Quicktime player for Avi, divix, and xvid formats was that frequently you would have no sound as it could not load the audio codecs. You could use Mplayer and as cool as it is that it can play anything its missing some features (like skipping ahead) with certain formats also. (Although pretty impressive for open source)
I found the fix today. Its called Perian. Its free. Download it and end your frustrations.
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/video/perian.html
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Don’t have a mac so it’s not a problem but nice find!
media player classic
Wow that would be helpful for me
Thanks Jeremy!
I had heard about some other application but not Perian, this one should be a try now.
Have you heard of something called VLC player (for mac) plays almost everything without even installing codecs! Google for VLC Player.
VLC player once didn’t accept playing a couple MP4 files in my mac, i remember that.
But VLC plays every other format.
Switch from Mac to PC and end it as well! HAHA.. I know that you Mac people are crazy about your macs, but I do still love my PC
Thanks for the dowload shaz…
Free is always good! Should come in handy for a few of your readers
Thanks for posting!
~Terry
You Mac people! One day I’ll trade in my PC and join your high-flyers’ club, but for now I’ll have to dream of my own Macbook Air…..nice tip though, sure a lot of Mac afficionados will find it extremely useful. Music makes the world go round, after all!
sweet thanks for this plugin i will need this when i get my mac in mail soon
Thnkz now i can make it work on my dads mac too!
After my last, piece of crap, Dell I’m ready for a Mac. My last four PCs were Dells and they were great, but my last machine from them is junk.
same problem occured with me before.
but solved by itself.
im not a mac fan yet…..but the temptations are gorwing ahhhh
Why use mac when you have windows
VLC is the freaking bomb. It plays everything I’ve ever thrown at it.
at the beginning from now i always use windows and really dont know why people use mac. what is its magic?
I agree with Website Reviews, PC’s are better then Macs.
Yeah VLC is the best for all formats
How did you fix it?
Mac users can say same!
Same here, I sure want one too.
Would love to have one though! Do you have a Mac, Shoemoney? And which one, if I may be so bold as to enquire?
What do you mean by that?
VLC rocks!!!!!
Macs rule – PC’s drool!
I’ve been using PC & Windows for as long as I can remember. Now that I’ve come into the Mac family though, I’ll never go back
It’s hard to explain why the Mac is so appealing, unless one tries it out for at least a month.
All the specs and comparisons in the world don’t tell the whole story.
Thanks man! I couldnt play a video and nothing worked, except this.
Thanks so much for this post. Was having no luck figuring out how to get quicktime to play audio for downloaded xvid and divx files.
installed – still not playing audio??
Katelynn Zaldivar
I installed and it worked for almost everything, but it’s still not playing audio on some of my avi files after a few seconds… i’ve been irritated with this problem all morning. I don’t understand why on some files it’ll work fine and then others it doesn’t, if i fast forward it’ll do the same… play audio for a bit and then stop, please help!