Afternoon all,

Whenever I download an avi file and launch it the following happens.
Double clicking launches quicktime and the actual film quality and performance is fine, however there is never any sound !!
Help would be most appreciated
Thanks

This 'always' happens with all avi files??? Go to your QT Prefs>Plugins>MIME Settings (at bottom of window is a mime button) In the new window tick ALL options for plugins. If you don't already have it, dwnld divx & perhaps 3ivx. I'm not sure you'd be able to use them for encoding if you're not a QT Pro user but they should help decode your movies. AVI is very much like QT. It has a generic video format, yet it can also be a hybrid format incorporating other types of compressed formats. Becoming very popular is avi-divx. For DivX go to http://www.divxmovies.com/codec/
For 3ivx go to http://www.3ivx.com/ & go to dwnld page & look on top right of page.
I should also have mentioned Xvid which you'll find at the divx site I gave you.
There's also other players you could try such as VLC: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ or MPlayer: http://mplayerosx.sourceforge.net/

Fantastic reply - thankyou very much indeed for your help. I'll get right onto it !!