MPG, AVI, ASF etc
 

I am using a mac os 9 or above, and I just downloaded Limewire. It works great, no problems downloading, only when I try to play videos that are in mpg, avi or asf format, they won't open. What program(s) do I need to play them? Thank you!

Do they have it anywhere else for under Mac os X? I think I have os 9.1

Hi Kath and maverick1lc

until someone with more recent Mac classic experience comes along, here's what I recall about trying to play video on Mac OS 7.61-9:

once QuickTime is updated (Software Update or the Update button in the QuickTime Control Panel), then--

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=30903 is the place to start--this will get you about three codecs for starts

http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/ Quicktime Pro comes with extra plugins for a price

http://www.divx.com/divx/mac/ will help play a few more for free

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win...oad/mac71.aspx will get you a 'free' Microsoft product (shudder). I remember trying Windows Media Player *? for Mac a few years ago and finding it had a high 'price', but perhaps it doesn't still mess up other prefs and can be uninstalled much easier.
This one is may be 'free', but I'd be cautious.

Really though--for playing video on a Mac, as pointed out above, VLC on OSX covers most of the situations QuickTime can't handle.

cheers.

Man, I can't understand why Quicktime will play some .mpg but not all. Sometimes it just says that it doesn't "understand" the file... ok....
Well, I don't know if this will work for OS9 but try getting a hold on DivX doctor, an Avi-to-Mov app which will change .avis to the much larger .movs (duh).