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minka - Oct 17, 2005 - 10:08 pm
Hi there.
I have recently purchased an IBook,....love it!
But have some problems. Am not very computer literate to be honest.
For example, have just downloaded a bunch of videos using 'Limewire' and can not watch them/
I can watch the ones in Mpeg or Mpg but not avi
My comp. told me I needed to download some more Quicktime software and automatically took me to the Quicktime webpage, but I didnt know what I was to do from there - I downloaded a few things but it didnt do much
Do I have to convert these 'avi' files or what?
Thanks
KT
I have recently purchased an IBook,....love it!
But have some problems. Am not very computer literate to be honest.
For example, have just downloaded a bunch of videos using 'Limewire' and can not watch them/
I can watch the ones in Mpeg or Mpg but not avi
My comp. told me I needed to download some more Quicktime software and automatically took me to the Quicktime webpage, but I didnt know what I was to do from there - I downloaded a few things but it didnt do much
Do I have to convert these 'avi' files or what?
Thanks
KT
one1step1 - Oct 18, 2005 - 11:37 am
Hi Katie,
There are so many different codecs (coder/decoders) that could have been used for quicktime, it could be some obscure codec, especially something you got off of a file sharing program.
The formats floating around these networks are usually xvid or Divx.
Here is one for xvid
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/17151
You can also try "Mplayer" , which is good at playing MOST formats if Quicktime won't play them.
http://makeashorterlink.com/?L2CA1200C
And here is another player that will play some that Quicktime won't, it's called "VLC".
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macos...diaplayer.html
And finally.. you may find alot of WMV files out there, well, this cool program called "FLIP4MAC WMVPlayer" ($10, but gives a free trial - i just bought it and it's awesome) takes any WMV (Windows Media Video) file and plays it with Quicktime.
I have found it really handy because most of the video on websites like CNN for example only use WMV files, and they never played right.. until I bought this.
http://www.flip4mac.com/wmv.htm
Let me know if these helped!
There are so many different codecs (coder/decoders) that could have been used for quicktime, it could be some obscure codec, especially something you got off of a file sharing program.
The formats floating around these networks are usually xvid or Divx.
Here is one for xvid
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/17151
You can also try "Mplayer" , which is good at playing MOST formats if Quicktime won't play them.
http://makeashorterlink.com/?L2CA1200C
And here is another player that will play some that Quicktime won't, it's called "VLC".
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macos...diaplayer.html
And finally.. you may find alot of WMV files out there, well, this cool program called "FLIP4MAC WMVPlayer" ($10, but gives a free trial - i just bought it and it's awesome) takes any WMV (Windows Media Video) file and plays it with Quicktime.
I have found it really handy because most of the video on websites like CNN for example only use WMV files, and they never played right.. until I bought this.
http://www.flip4mac.com/wmv.htm
Let me know if these helped!
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