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by thewolfe » Fri Jan 01, 2010 10:42 am
I have sent a friend a video that is an \"avi\" file created on Windows Movie Maker.
He is unable to play it on his iMac model A1224.
Suggestions?
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by D.Cent » Fri Jan 01, 2010 10:54 am
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by Krom » Fri Jan 01, 2010 12:12 pm
VLC for mac, or Mplayer should be able to play it.
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by thewolfe » Fri Jan 01, 2010 2:52 pm
Ya mean the famous media computer Mac can't view avi files.
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by Sirius » Fri Jan 01, 2010 4:51 pm
Well, it's not magic.
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by fliptw » Fri Jan 01, 2010 5:35 pm
That being said, Apple has much better container formats to support - the ones they had a hand in, namely Quicktime and its offspring MPEG-4.
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by Zantor » Fri Jan 01, 2010 5:49 pm
Depending on what codec was used in that AVI file, you might be able to convert it to a format more widespread and compatible than what it's in right now. If I convert a video using Any Video Converter, I can choose one of about 5 or 6 formats in video, and one of 3 formats in audio for AVI.