Quicktime and Divx and MPEG 2

Hi,
After months of nagging from my IT colleagues I have just bought a Mac mini with Leopard and am just getting to grips with how it functions. (very impressed to date now I have a "proper operting system" :o) )I am using it in my lounge connected to my Plasma TV. I have 4 other Windows XP machines which share all their "My Documents" on a Buffalo Link Station which is backed up to Buffalo Drivestation. I am looking for similar functionality to WMP 11 and would like to know if there is any way that Quicktime can show DIVX's and MPEG2's in the file list so I can use Frontrow from teh remote as the interface is so slick. I have the MPGE2 codec and DIVX installed. The MPEG codec does show lines (maybe interlacing) with any sideways movement when viewing my my raw MPGE2 cam corder videos. This doesn't happy with XP and WM11 however I can live with that as the MAc Mini is more convenient than a PC in the lounge.
Maybe I need something other than Quicktime? I was a bit nervous about posting here for the first time incase I get "abuse" but my other Mac users assure somebody will know the answer. I have some other questions so I'll post these on the site in the relevent areas now I'm registered.
Cheers in advance.
Clarkerz

If these Mpeg-2 videos are going to be on your hard drive. Look into this player, VLC. You can have a playlist of your videos. The de-interlacing is great! It can all so play Divx and dvd's. It's free Here's VLC site...
http://www.videolan.org/
If your going to play Divx in Quicktime I would get this component (Perian) for Quicktime... This component will play Divx better in Quicktime (and other formats that Quicktime can't pay).
http://perian.org/
This will get you started...

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http://danslagle.com/mac/iMovie/tips_tricks/6018.shtml
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http://www.apple.com/quicktime/mpeg2/faq.html
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The info about my system was out of date; I'd corrected it for my original post but forgot to on my followup. I've fixed it in my profile now so it shows my current system, which sounds very similar to yours.
And maybe I'm not explaining myself well enough. I'm not just talking about h.264 encodes from HDV, I'm also talking about extreme sluggishness creating a QT movie at regular NTSC settings that's already been converted from HDV to SD DV. How sluggish? Consider the following:
1) In FCP, I've got an NTSC SD sequence where I've copied in a 35 minute HDV sequence and already rendered the entire sequence at SD resolution. When I tell FCP to export a QT movie at DV NTSC 48Khz, the estimate begins at about 30 minutes and then quickly climbs to over an hour. I aborted after several minutes, with the time estimate still on the climb.
2) I created a new FCP project with the settings for NTSC SD. I located the the 'scratch' folder where FCP rendered the SD video I mentioned in attempt #1. I imported all the clips, verified that the movie is 35 minutes long and all expected footage is present, and then selected the exact same QT export option as in Step #1. The estimate started at 5 seconds and, sure enough, 5 seconds later it was done. I have a complete 35 minute long SD DV QuickTime movie sitting on my desktop.
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