avi files

[twelvetrees]

Hi,
I am running Lime Wire Pro on a Mac running OSX 10.3.4
Whenever I try and download an avi file it wont let me play it because it tells me that Quicktime is missing some software? Does anyone know what I need to make this work or cant I use avi files on a Mac, if so what should I be looking for? Thanks!

[Lord of the Rings]

It could be divx file or another type of avi.
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/ VLC will play all types of videos except the occasional wmv file. But who'd want those on a mac anyway. lol

million thanks , great info