I connect to Lime Wire. I merrily download a movie. I know I have Quicktime and a DVD player, so I try to launch the movie. What happens? NOT A DAMNED THING! HELP ME! This is driving me crazy.

Hey!! Has anyone gotten an answer for this problem. I am having the same issues with my files. Please let me know if anyone has found a fix for this!!

thanks:

mad:

Could you provide more details as to what you are trying to do? Normally, you would not use your DVD player to view a downloaded video clip.

QuickTime plays many, but not all, video type files. Are you trying to play avi files?
Mpgs? Mov?

Try www.videolan.org for a free player that plays almost any file.

I have video Lan and I still cant play AVI files for some reason.

I downloaded a movie in the mpg format and one in the avi format.

QT says that it is missing software to open the mpg file. QT opens a movie window but says it can not play the avi file, that it is missing a compressor.

VLC opens a window that shows a Warning and then the window closes when I try to open the mpg file. VLC opens a window that is black but plays nothing with the avi file.

The answer is CODECS.

You need the right one to decompress the video.

Ask google:

www.google.com

Morgwen

in addition to QT and VLC, another free player for OSX is mplayer http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...group_id=62947

OK, once I download a new player does it dump a lot of files into my system that may cause problems and I can not find to trash if I need to. Why isn't there one player that will paly them all?

Also once I can play them can I record them to a VHS or DVD?

Listen almost all players are able to play all videos, BUT YOU NEED THE RIGHT CODECS!!!


Read what I replied, your player is telling you exatly what it needed to play this video. Software which is able to decompress it - IT IS CALLED CODECS!

Morgwen