Comments on: Watch AVI video on a Mac

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 04:41:29 +0000

I dont really understand what that did exactly (not a computer guy), but it worked. Thank you very much.

By: rossio

rossio — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 04:27:04 +0000

thank you! I did what you said and now i can finally hear the audio in my .avi videos! thank you again!~

By: Clive

Clive — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 15:10:58 +0000

@Alex you say that iskysoft is a “great free tool”???? Since when has iskysoft been free?

By: Fix audio syncing problems when playing videos - OS X Daily

Fix audio syncing problems when playing videos - OS X Daily — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 17:18:10 +0000

[...] load at all, this is probably not syncing but rather a codec issue. If you run into this, learn to watch AVI video on the Mac using something like Perian that has a wide codec support. In most cases, VLC will play the movie [...]

By: Mariusz Nowak

Mariusz Nowak — Wed, 19 May 2010 10:49:32 +0000

Ufortunately Perian is terribly slow.
VLC has much better performance.. but anyway king of performance is Movist and the best is to stick with this.It’s first player that on my MBPro plays well compressed 1080p videos without glitches.

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 18 May 2010 07:14:13 +0000

If you wanna play avi file,i recommend VLC player~
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

The handbrake is the best choice for converting avi files~
http://handbrake.fr/

You can also find many video tools on apple.com:
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/video/imediaconverterformac.html

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 18 May 2010 05:31:20 +0000

When I first started reading this article I thought it was going to be about the Apple page where you can obtain QT codecs and plugins and junk.

http://www.apple.com/quicktime/resources/components.html

@jakub, QT isn’t really horrible at all. Overall it’s hight versatile and functional. It has allot of really great features and functionality, aside from being the foundation of iTunes. Pretty good basic video editing functions, great export and video conversion functions. QT is actually pretty powerful if you take the time to get to know it.

By: Gary

Gary — Tue, 18 May 2010 00:17:29 +0000

Not sure why you say Mac development for VLC has stagnated. A posting on their site http://www.videolan.org/ dated April 21 states that version 1.06 for the Mac will soon be released, which will bridge the gap between the current 1.05 (released in January) and the up-coming version 1.10. VLC works beautifully for me and I have it installed on 20+ Macs in our studio.

By: Manish

Manish — Mon, 17 May 2010 17:20:19 +0000

QuickTime Player opens many AVI movies without Perian, it’s only particular codecs that it won’t support.

If you have any suggestions for an alternate video player, post away. Since development on VLC for Mac has stagnated I am hesitant to recommend it as a solution.

By: jakub

jakub — Mon, 17 May 2010 16:14:56 +0000

So where’s the “without any additional software” when the whole article is about installing a software?
Isn’t it better to just forget about the horrible Quick Time Player?