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From: AES on 13 May 2010 12:15
What might I need to play a movie with .avi suffix on a MacBook running
OS 10.4.11 and QuickTime Player 7.6.4? The movie runs but doesn't
display anything or give any audio output. QuickTime says it needs an
additional component or helper, but doesn't say which one.

Thanks . . .
From: Gerry on 13 May 2010 12:40
In article <siegman-90FE96.09151913052010(a)sciid-srv02.med.tufts.edu>,
AES <siegman(a)stanford.edu> wrote:

> What might I need to play a movie with .avi suffix on a MacBook running
> OS 10.4.11 and QuickTime Player 7.6.4? The movie runs but doesn't
> display anything or give any audio output. QuickTime says it needs an
> additional component or helper, but doesn't say which one.
>
> Thanks . . .

A quick search with Google on <playing avi files on mac" brought up
numerous solutions, one is to download the VLC player from:

<http://www.videolan.org/>
From: Warren Oates on 13 May 2010 15:17
In article <siegman-90FE96.09151913052010(a)sciid-srv02.med.tufts.edu>,
AES <siegman(a)stanford.edu> wrote:

> What might I need to play a movie with .avi suffix on a MacBook running
> OS 10.4.11 and QuickTime Player 7.6.4? The movie runs but doesn't
> display anything or give any audio output. QuickTime says it needs an
> additional component or helper, but doesn't say which one.
>
> Thanks . . .

Perian plays most things:

http://perian.org/
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