: I know this is a bit OT, but as Google has proven very unhelpful, I now turn
: to you. Do you know of any way to play .avi video files on a Mac? A
: (PC-Using) friend of mine gave me two episodes of Monty Python's Flying
: Circus on a CD he burned for me, but they're in .avi format. I'd
: appreciate any help.
imho even better than vlc:
http://mplayerosx.sourceforge.net/
if you want to be able to play the movies in qt there are several possible codecs. divx5 mentioned above is one option. sometimes 3ivx works better: http://www.3ivx.com/ . the one that uses the least cpu is ffusion, but audio playback might not work: http://aldorandenet.free.fr/codecs/