How do I view vids on mac?

[cuteguy27]

I have a Macbook using Mac OS X software. Does anyone know what is needed to view these vids: avi, mpeg, etc. I thought my quicktime player would have done the trick, but I was wrong.

Thanks in advance.

[Resi-TV]

Hi, Think you have to search for VLC.app on w w w dot version tracker dot com
It is free and will work I think. Resi-tv

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[Infamous]

Hi

Quicktime will play most vids (including WMV, FLV, AVI files) but sometimes you need the right plug-ins. It is best to look at the Apple support pages for links to the right ones.

However, I understand that the codecs were never developed for Macs for some versions of AVI (& possibly MPEG) files. For those it doesn't matter what player you have, a Mac won't play them (except if you load Windows - but I could never see the point in that!). However, I don't find very many files these days that my Mac won't play.

Hope this helps

Infamous

[cuteguy27]

Hi, Think you have to search for VLC.app on w w w dot version tracker dot com
It is free and will work I think. Resi-tv

**no hotlinks on the forum**

Thanks for your help. This makes things much more enjoyable.