Quicktime Codecs

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in Genius Bar edited January 2014
does anyone know where to get codecs to play movies on quicktime? i looked around and all i ended up with things that werent compatible with tiger, or mac os X. anyone want to share a link?



thanks

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 5
    http://www.apple.com/quicktime/resou...omponents.html



    ...is that what you're looking for ?



    And oh, by the way, the Astros are totally pissing me off this week!!!
  • Reply 2 of 5
    the latest tiger/quicktime7 DIVX/XVID codec is here:

    http://download.divx.com/labs/DivXFusionBeta3.dmg
  • Reply 3 of 5
    mr. hmr. h Posts: 4,870member
    If you'd rather not use a beta codec, 3ivx has traditionally been much better than the DivX codec.



    Also, search for VLC and Mplayer at versiontracker.com
  • Reply 4 of 5
    sunilramansunilraman Posts: 8,133member
    yeah i like 3ivx but via quicktime it doesn't handle avi's which have an mp3 soundtrack to the mpeg4 divx/xvid video... eg an episode of Lost from **ahem... lets just say NOT the apple online video store**



    yeah videolan vlc and mplayer are sweet
  • Reply 5 of 5
    mr. hmr. h Posts: 4,870member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by sunilraman

    yeah i like 3ivx but via quicktime it doesn't handle avi's which have an mp3 soundtrack to the mpeg4 divx/xvid video... eg an episode of Lost from **ahem... lets just say NOT the apple online video store**



    DivX doctor, which comes with the codec, fixes that; .avi files with mp3 audio and DivX video don't actually comply properly with the avi standard, and that's why QuickTime doesn't play them. DivX doctor moves the streams into a MOV wrapper to make it work.



    I only really use 3ivx for encoding other files (the dual-pass encoder is pretty good) or for transcoding DivX to something else. For viewing stuff I normally just use VLC.
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