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Dean Hutton - Apr 30, 2008 - 12:28 am

hi can you tell me what program i need on my mac to watch DVI files

DeltaMac - Apr 30, 2008 - 6:52 am

TextWrangler should be able to help you view dvi files.
http://www.barebones.com/products/te...er/index.shtml

Unless - you are not asking about dvi files, but some type of video files?
dvi files are not video files at all, but are files produced by TeX.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device_...nt_file_format

- Dale

Dean Hutton - Apr 30, 2008 - 9:05 pm

Hi thanks for that but now i m a bit confused...The dvi files i was refering to are video files but i must of gotten it wrong somewhere.I'm not sure but what are the files you are talking about,it appears they are text.

DeltaMac - Apr 30, 2008 - 9:33 pm

Ah - OK!
Then are you maybe referring to AVI files (not DVI, which is a hardware interface for displays, and not a type of video)

Everything you ever wanted to know about DVI (maybe too much!)
http://www.datapro.net/techinfo/dvi_info.html

A video format, such as AVI, can usually be viewed with your QuickTime viewer, often with a plugin added, such as Perian - http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/video/perian.html

or Flip4Mac - http://www.apple.com/downloads/macos...quicktime.html

Among those 3, you can view a lot of different types of video files.
But, it would help if you can tell what type of video file you have, and DVI does not accurately describe any type of video file.

- Dale