Quicktime 6 pro... cant view movies!

[PowermacG4_450]

Im trying to view .avi movies in the browser, and its not working. the window opens, you see the file playing?... but no picture! No sound.

is this a quicktime bug? other? help!

this is very irritating.... I thought QT 6 is a worldwide standard? How come its not working then?

Im using osX jaguar, IE 5.2.2, tried opera 6 beta... no luck in either one.

heres the errror im getting:



quicktime error

[gigi]

well the error message says it all really.....
You are missing the "required compressor". you need to find out what codec was used to encode the avi, then find out if you can get it for the mac. It could be using anyone of number of different codecs......Divx ...Indeo etc
Open your .avi movie again, then press the "apple" key + J . A window should open...on the left there should be the drop down menu containing the video & sound files.
Select the "video" file, the from the drop down menu on the right select "General".
this should tell you what codec was used to encode the movie. With this new info, you can now try to find a mac os x version of the codec.
BTW Quicktime 6 is the world standard when it comes to playing .mov files, ".avi" is a PC format.

[PowermacG4_450]

format is: IV32.

whatever that means.

[gigi]

that would be the Indeo Video codec...version 3.2...I dont think there is a version for mac os X.
Try downloading videolan
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/macosx.html
or
mplayer
http://www.fi.muni.cz/~xpridal/mplayerosx/
that might help.....

[PowermacG4_450]

Ive tried em all... no luck.

I still cant beleive that QT wont handle this....

perhaps Im doing something wrong? Ive tried playing the movie in both QT and by dragging to play in the other apps.... ??? Im totally lost.

"I just wanna view .avi movies!".

[gigi]

where did you get the ".avi" file from ? ill download it and try play it.

[PowermacG4_450]

Well, I wont upload cause its too big. 5 mb or so..... but.... its NOT playing.

Weird, I downloaded an avi from another site. And that one played! BUT, it didnt play using QT... within the browser, it appears to have played with windows media for mac, which I have on this system.

why would that one launch and play in the brower, and the other one didnt? weird.

could it be a browser issue? Meaning, the settings, or file helper settings in the browser?

I dont think so....

My understanding is that there is a codec issue and macosx.... im told it would work if I boot under os9... problem is, I dont use 9 anymore.

[lucasraggers]

I use macs for many years now and i've never been able to play avi files. There are avi to quicktime converters but they are unrelieable. I can view: .mov / .mpg / .asf / .rm