1.14 Convert AVI to MP4 using HandbrakeĪVI is among the most widely used file formats for videos today, but for Mac users, it's always not so easy to play AVI file with QuickTime player, especially when you have upgraded to the latest macOS 10.15 Catalina.Unfortunately, the latest version 1.2.3 of Perian is not compatible with Mac OS X Mavericks (10.9), Mountain Lion (10.8) and Lion (10.7). So far, no matter you are a Windows user or a Mac user, QuickTime only natively plays AVI files with MJPEG video.Īs a great open-source QuickTime component, Perian is the saver to allow QuickTime to play all kinds of AVI videos for Mac users.

To play all AVI files, your player must support all of these codecs. The video in AVI file can be compressed by many kinds of codec, such as MJPEG (Motion JPEG), MPEG-1, MPEG-2, DivX, XviD, WMV and others. It's not the sameĪVI (Audio Video Interleaved) is a container format designed by Microsoft to wrap audio and video stream together. Does anybody have a system wide solution to this problem?ĭid you read my post above? Use QuickTime Player 7. The library Matlab can't read the file either. One problem remains though: without a working codec in I uninstalled DivX Player because I read that too many codecs besides theįormer two could cause the problem- but it didn't Quicktime's inability to Insists that a codec is missing, though I have Perian and Flip4Mac installed. The only application that reads my uncompressed. I remember hearing something to that effect when the Iĭon't have Lion, so I don't know about it, but I assume the same is true,

Optional installs folder or it should be downloadable from Apple. It is on the Snow Leopard installation DVD in the You need to use QuickTime Player 7 which can coexist with the new To be playable in Quicktime but not anymore. I haven't worked with Matlab-generated avi files in a while.

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