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
May 8, 2009 at 1:37 am
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.
April 11, 2009 at 10:56 am
Thanks man! I couldnt play a video and nothing worked, except this.
June 9, 2008 at 12:11 pm
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.
June 8, 2008 at 8:40 am
Macs rule – PC’s drool!
June 8, 2008 at 8:38 am
VLC rocks!!!!!
June 8, 2008 at 8:36 am
What do you mean by that?
June 8, 2008 at 8:36 am
Would love to have one though! Do you have a Mac, Shoemoney? And which one, if I may be so bold as to enquire?
June 4, 2008 at 2:54 am
Same here, I sure want one too.
June 4, 2008 at 2:42 am
Mac users can say same!
June 4, 2008 at 2:38 am
How did you fix it?
June 4, 2008 at 2:36 am
Yeah VLC is the best for all formats
June 3, 2008 at 2:44 pm
I agree with Website Reviews, PC’s are better then Macs.
June 3, 2008 at 10:32 am
at the beginning from now i always use windows and really dont know why people use mac. what is its magic?
June 3, 2008 at 6:11 am
VLC is the freaking bomb. It plays everything I’ve ever thrown at it.
June 3, 2008 at 4:58 am
Why use mac when you have windows
June 2, 2008 at 11:13 am
im not a mac fan yet…..but the temptations are gorwing ahhhh
June 2, 2008 at 7:27 am
same problem occured with me before.
but solved by itself.
June 2, 2008 at 7:20 am
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.
June 2, 2008 at 5:47 am
Thnkz now i can make it work on my dads mac too!
June 2, 2008 at 1:27 am
sweet thanks for this plugin i will need this when i get my mac in mail soon
June 2, 2008 at 12:43 am
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!
June 1, 2008 at 9:23 pm
Free is always good! Should come in handy for a few of your readers
Thanks for posting!
~Terry
June 1, 2008 at 8:21 pm
Thanks for the dowload shaz…
June 1, 2008 at 6:05 pm
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
June 1, 2008 at 2:53 pm
VLC player once didn’t accept playing a couple MP4 files in my mac, i remember that.
But VLC plays every other format.
June 1, 2008 at 1:19 pm
Have you heard of something called VLC player (for mac) plays almost everything without even installing codecs! Google for VLC Player.
June 1, 2008 at 12:43 pm
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.
June 1, 2008 at 12:30 pm
media player classic
June 1, 2008 at 12:24 pm
Don’t have a mac so it’s not a problem but nice find!