Mac OS X and DivX

killsta

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Lo all,

Just got a MacBook and some of my DivX files play but have no sound (because the audio isn't encoded into MP3) in both DivX Player and Quicktime. I've checked the files that don't have any sound and the audio compression is "unknown".

The files play fine (with sound!) when using MPlayerOSX, but where can I get the codecs to let me watch them in DivX Player and Quicktime? I've tried Googling to no avail.


Cheers
 
If you want Quicktime to play a wide range of media formats try Perian. It's open source (and free!) and doesn't have any nasty ads. It can do AVI and MKV no problems (with subtitles), and Quicktime can already do MP4 so you've pretty much covered most media formats from, er, the naughty sites.

http://perian.org

Alternatively, you can try VLC. Also an excellent piece of software.

On a related note Quicktime now does fullscreen in the free version (I know, what a joke!) so theres little reason not to use it anymore.
 
Oh one brilliant reason to use Perian + Quicktime combo is if you watch a lot of Anime or foreign films. I still haven't managed to get Subtitles looking any good on VLC, whereas Quicktime uses a very nice looking TrueType font.
 
Perian is working brilliantly now, just one more codec I think I need, this time for BBC News..

Anybody know where I can get either a) Windows Media codec for Safari b) Real Player codec for Safari (not the actual bloated one from Real) or c) all of the above? :p

Cheers all
 
ic1male said:
Just try using VLC - videolan.org

It can play just about anything on OS X.
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It can indeed, that's if you can actually get it working! Most of the time mines has a hissy fit upon opening a movie. Then I need to start it up again, and again until the movie actually plays. It'll occasionally open up first time though :p
 
The Mac OS X version of RealPlayer is actually very good! I'm not aware of any nagging or kind-of-spyware complaints about it.

If you want a guaranteed adware free version apparently downloading from the BBCs website will do it; they arranged for a special version as part of their contract.
 
ic1male said:
Just try using VLC - videolan.org

It can play just about anything on OS X.
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Combine that with Perian and you're sorted :)

..oh, and Flip4Mac for the pesky WMV files!

This is all in the sticky btw ;)
 
killsta said:
Perian is working brilliantly now, just one more codec I think I need, this time for BBC News..

Anybody know where I can get either a) Windows Media codec for Safari b) Real Player codec for Safari (not the actual bloated one from Real) or c) all of the above? :p
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Realplayer for Mac is actually not a bad little app, I find it works better embedded in webpages than Flip4Mac but thats because I use Camino.
 
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