Video/Codec Help

Hi everyone. I have some video files a friend gave me now on my Mac, and half of them don't play... Quicktime seems to be the native program that tries to view all .mpg and .avi files, but half of them work, half of them don't. Note that they all work on my PC. I also have Windows Media Player for the Mac, but that only plays the .wmv files. I tried installing DivX and that didn't help...
What codecs/players am I missing for the Mac? I know the files are not corrupt...?

All a Codec is, is a means of compression. The most common on Macs now are MPEG-2, MPEG-4, and H.264, and Sorenson. Divx is only popular because of a lot of pirated videos being encoded on that format. I will not get into that, as that would be bordering on discussion of illegal activities.
MPEG-2 is the most common format, as that's what most commercial DVDs use.
MPEG-4 has been decided as a common format both by Quicktime and Real.
H.264 is a popular format for encoding HD Video because its compression is very high. The only problem is you need high end hardware to get full 1080i video with it such as dual-processor G5s.
You might want to use the software search engines on http://guide.apple.com/ http://www.versiontracker.com/ and http://www.macupdate.com/ to find alternative players.
Also since you have an Intel Mac, check out the listings of Intel compatible software sites on my http://www.macmaps.com/macosxnative.html#INTEL
page.

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