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avi files

Feb 27, 2008 3:21PM PST

can anyone help with this please
i have the powerbook g4 12" and i had panther (10.3.9) and had several movie (avi) files that wouldnt work. suddenly they worked and all was well.

i recently upgraded to leopard (10.5.2) and got all the updates that were necessary according to my system updater including quicktime.

the movies will not play anymore and i cant figure out why. they wont play in divx either.

PLEASE HELP
thanks

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Try VLC for mac
Mar 1, 2008 12:53AM PST
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Other than VLC
Mar 1, 2008 4:28AM PST

Take a look at the DIVX site

I believe there are codecs for QT up there

That would be Divx.com

P

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thanks
Mar 1, 2008 4:57AM PST

i actually got it to work by running them through isquint so i dont really know what the deal was. but once they were converted to mp4 they were fine.

thanks for the help anyway
jon