Xvid and ac3 quicktime codec

Hi All, got my mini yesterday, hooked it up and all is good. All my movies and tunes are stored on my NAS and sync with front row via aliases. I need an quicktime xvid and ac3 codec that is compatable with intel macs. The regular ones wont work, but they do on my imac G4.
Any thoughts of where I can get some as, ones ive downloaded dont seem to work.
cheers

Is the external drive mounting on the desktop before you go to frontrow?
My set up consists of two drives. The first is a 250 GB lacie mini companion (sits under mini) connected by firewire, this holds all my movies. I created a folder called 'movies' then made an alias and then put this in my movies folder.
One thing I found is that if you movies are structured like this:
'movie folder' > then film ie: sincity.mpg
Front row has a real problem loading all of the films as a list. To over come this put every film into a seperate folder like this:
'movie folder' > Sincity folder > sincity.mpg
My second drive is a NAS this holds all my music. I had to create a automator script to mount this drive on start up other wise front row music wont work.
So I dont know why this wont work for you?

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I am new at Macbook. I just got it one week ago, and i dunno how to use it, but I love my mac...
My question is how can I play .divx files, and some of the movies I have coded with ac3, so how can I play them?
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Hi ecetin and welcome to the forums!
Congratulations on the new macbook - I hope you will both be very happy!
Here is the 'full nine yards' on what you need:
These are the downloads and the settings you need in order to view/hear pretty much everything that the net can throw at you: The setup described below has proved repeatedly successful on both PPC and Intel macs, but nothing in life carries a guarantee!
It is known to work in the great majority of cases with Safari 3.0.4, 3.1, 3.1.1, QT 7.3, 7.4.x and 7.5 and OS 10.4.11.
Assuming you already run Tiger versions OS 10.4.11 and have Quicktime 7.4 or above, and are using Safari 2 or 3, download and install (or re-install even if you already had them) the latest versions, suitable for your flavor of Mac, of:
RealPlayer 11 (which is no longer in beta) for Mac from:
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Flip4Mac WMV Player from http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/wmcomponents.mspx (Windows Media Player for the Mac is no longer supported, even by Microsoft)
Perian from http://perian.org/
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Adobe FlashPlayer should first be uninstalled using the appropriate uninstaller available here:
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_14157&sliceId=2
and then the latest version obtained from here:
http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1ProdVersion=ShockwaveFlash
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(You can check here: http://www.adobe.com/products/flash/about/ to see which version you should install for your Mac and OS, but please see my footnote if you are running Leopard.)
In earlier versions than QT 7.1.3 in Quicktime Preferences, under advanced, UNcheck Enable Flash, and under Mime settings/Miscellananeous only check Quicktime HTML (QHTM).
You should also ensure, if you are running Tiger 10.4.11, that you have downloaded and installed all the correct version for your Mac of Security Updates up to and including 2008-004. (N.B. Security Updates require both a restart and a permission repair.)
In Macintosh HD/Library/Quicktime/ delete any files relating to DivX (Perian already has them). However it should be noted that Perian is not an internet plugin and will not play DivX files imbedded on a website. For that you will need the DivX Player browser plugin available from http://www.divx.com/divx/mac/
Now go to Safari Preferences/Security, and tick the boxes under Web Content (all 4 of them) to enable Java.
Lastly open Audio Midi Setup (which you will find in the Utilities Folder of your Applications Folder) and click on Audio Devices. Make sure that both Audio Input and Audio Output, under Format, are set to 44100 Hz, and that you have selected 'Built in Audio'.
Important: Now repair permissions and restart.
You should also consider having the free VLC Player from http://www.videolan.org/ in your armory, as this plays almost anything that DVD Player might not.
There is an additional 'fix' you could try if you are having problems with Flash and Quicktime, depending on which type of Mac you have:
On Intel Macs, make sure that you are not running Safari in Rosetta. You can check this, and change it, in the Get Info window.
On PPC Macs, go to the Hard Disk/Library/Internet Plug-Ins folder, and drag the file 'QuickTime Plugin.webplugin' to the desktop. Quit and restart Safari. If things have improved you can trash that file. If they haven't put it back, as the lack of this plug-in can cause QT content in some widgets to cease functioning.
And now there is an additional kid on the block: SilverLight. Microsoft has created their own version of what a replacement for Flash should be. You can read more about it here:
http://silverlight.net/
So, if you go to any sites that have been designed for this new Silverlight stuff, you can download the plug-in from here (but make certain that you are downloading SilverLight v.1.0 for OS X (10.4.8 upwards):
http://silverlight.net/GetStarted/
FOOTNOTE
If you are running Leopard:
Some users have mentioned that the latest Flash Player (v.9.0.115.0) conflicts with Leopard, and that they have needed to revert to v. 9.0.47. This can be downloaded from here:
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Best XVID, AVI Quicktime Codec

Question
What is the best XVID codec for QT?
Background
I switched to Mac last year and have a lot of AVI files that do not properly play with quicktime. I remember it took a while to get these to work on my Windows box too as not all codec are made alike. I am having the same trobule on my MAC.
I do not want to install any other XVID/AVI player as I like QT and don't want to clutter my system.
I can play quite a few of these, but have to run to a windows box and use Dr Divx to rencode these files. I have Dr divx on the Mac, but because the codecs are not good, it will not rencode these problematic files.
Common issues
1) picture plays, no sound
2) picture and sound play for a bit, then no sound
3) no picture and no sound play
In each case, the windows box can play these files.

Hello, SD.
Try posting in the QuickTime for Mac forum. You'll be more likely to get help there than you will here in the QuickTime for Windows forum.
In the QT for Mac forum, I'd suggest you just search for "XVID" and "AVI". Both get covered quite frequently, so you'll probably find the answer there already.
Regards.

HT1338 why cant i play an AC3 sound codec avi on quicktime?

can you help me find a sound codec component of quicktime, an AC3 sound codec is needed, it says it needs a required AC3 sound component of quicktime, I dont know what it is and where to find it, can you help me with this?

Perian codecs for Quicktime - http://www.perian.org - plugins to add functionality to Quicktime for playing additional audio and video formats. 2012- No longer being developed but may still work.
Quicktime audio problems, Perian, VLC - http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=9013669 - read note about uninstalling prior DIVX support before installing Perian.
Media Info - http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net - to get details of codecs used in multimedia

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Anyway, the remaining of our graphic macs in the office will be upgrading to G5s and OS X Tiger soon (finally) and one "old" Avid Symphony (on a Windows NT) is still 'working with us' and the new OS X Avid QuickTime Codecs are unable to read any QuickTime movie exported from the Symphony to the macs.
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To allow that clip from Symphony to be able to use on a Mac OS X platform, we have to use QuickTime Player (OS 9) to re-export it using the newer Codec into a new movie clip.
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If we all use new G5s, one way is to install OS 9 as Classic in G5, launch it and launch QuickTime Player to do the same - unless in Classic environment this method will not work??
I am just wondering if anyone in this profession has the same "dilemma" the same working situation as us? And how do you solve it?? We can't simply just get rid of the Symphony (we love to... ha ha ha)
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I am running QT 10.2 on OSX Mountain Lion. I installed an A52/AC3 Codec that is supposed to play AC3 Audio in QT. The instructions said to put 1 component in Library/Component and the other in Library/Quicktime. In the System folder there is also a Library/Component and Library/Quicktime folders. So where do the QT components go? Do they go in all four folders? I put them in all four folders but Quicktime still did not play the AVI files with the Dolbt 5.1 (AC3) audio.

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If I click on the Thumbnail Preview "It" runs.
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TOP image is the Error message.
BOTTOM image is the Thumbnail Preview info.
I've checked out "Tell Me More" and have not found a solution.

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The basic work flow is to determine which codecs were used to create the non-playing file and then check to see if these formats are supported by your current system codec component configuration.
If the files will open in one of the QT player app, the open the inspector window to see which codecs were used to create the original file as seen here...
or here in the "Format" entry...
Or, if you have QT 7 keyed for "Pro" use, you can open the "Properties" window to gain even more information as demonstrated here...
if you file will not open in either of the QT Player apps, then you can try opening the Finder "Get Info" window for the file,
use a third-party media player that will open the file, or
use a dedicated media information utility to learn this information....
Once you know what codecs were used to create the file, post back with this information so we can deterine if the file should be natively supported by your Mac OS X install, requires an Apple Pro editing codec normally installed by the editor app, or requires a third-party codec which the user must supply.
These movies ran in QuickTime just fine until about a month ago.
All the folders in which these movies were stored in 4 folders in 2 folders in one folder. All folders at each level were encrypted with Stuffit Deluxe a version circa 2008 and decrypted with a newer Stuffit Deluxe 10.x. Other movies that are NOT .mov and in with the .mov movies still run.
Your information does not indicate whether or not the files actually played on the current system or were transferred from a different system which was properly configured for playbac, whether or not you recently upgraded your operating system/modified your codec component configuration by adding or deleting any codecs, whether your compound "Stuffing" of the files created corruption, etc.
As to MOV files the selves, this extension just implies the data was placed in the QT generic file container and the actually data could be of any compression format thathat was compatible with the codec component configuration for the system on which the files were created and could include natively supported system codecs, pro editing codecs, and/or third-party proprietary or hybrid codecs. (I.e., this is why we may need more information regarding the individual non-playing files.)
If I click on the Thumbnail Preview "It" runs.
f you are referring to QuickLook (QL) then the technology is different than QuickTime (QT). In the former case, the system is playing representative data but not actually opening the file as QT does. Thus, there is always the possibility that the problem is in the file structure (atom) information. For instance, suppose someone merely changed the MOV file extension in the Finder rather than actually copying data to a real MOV file container. Then it is possible that the QT player app may be searching for a codec that is not supposed or expected to be supported in the MOV file container and, not finding it, issues the erroneous codec error message—especially since you did not inticate the source of the file you are trying to play or, in some cases, which QT player is now not playing the file.
In short, there are several possibilities here and not enough specific information.

I work with Premiere Pro on a mac and export quicktime movies to be played on pc's or mac's

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