Trying to play a movie on my mac and says it needs an AC3 Codec
Hi can someone help me. I am trying to play a movie on my macbook pro off my portable hard drive. It keeps telling me I need an AC3 codec for the audio. Can anyone tell me where to get this from a trusted source.
Thanks
Try adding Perian. It's useful for allowing QuickTime to handle a wide variety of formats audio/video formats.
There is also Vlc which is a general video player for a wide variety of formats. But these days I am hesitant to recommend it since it was "updated" to 2.0 from 1.1.12. 1.1.12 was great and I still use it. 2.0 is not quite ready for prime time (unstable and buggy).
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