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I have a very large avi I have had real problems converting to a more versatile format on my Macs.
I have tried all the usual culprits but with little joy. Today I was checking out Daring Fireball and he had this little article.. http://daringfireball.net/ Quote:
NOTE: I can't see a link to any of these plugins elsewhere on AN so am making a new thread about this.. Appologies if my searching was not good enough, and if this needs to be merged elsewhere, so be it. 'Remember, measure life by the moments that take your breath away, not by how many breaths you take' Extreme Sports Cafe | ESC's blog | scratt's blog | @thescratt |
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skates=grafs
Join Date: May 2005
Location: New York
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sweet...it works really well here on a bunch of .avi's i've tested.
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Formerly turtle2472 Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Upstate South Carolina
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Great find, thanks.
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Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Portlandia
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I don't have Front Row, but could someone confirm if this cooperates with Front Row? That'd be sweet.
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Using the divx plugin works with avi, so if this is better, it should to.
BTW, scratt, did you try the divx plugin for QT? I haven't had any problem with it. |
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monkey with a tiny cymbal
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Lost
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Awesome find. Does this solve the beachball if you try to load the preview of an AVI that quicktime can't read (ie clicking on a file with the preview pane on in Finder)?
If it does, that'd be even more spectacular. |
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Having said that.. I just tried it again (immediately after the crash), and it worked perfectly. |
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For encoding and transcoding, you'll still need the DivX component. Also, you'll still definitely want Flip4Mac, and if you have some AC3/A52 audio, you'll want the A52 component. Things Perian does that I haven't found any other to be capable of include: • H.264 through AVI (asinine, but some idiots indeed do that ) • FLV (Flash video) |
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Join Date: Jan 2006
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Be careful. I can't guarantee that it's this plugin that caused it, but immediately following installation, my external usb 2 drive kept mounting and unmounting. Can't get it to work other than use firewire.
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No problems with that here.. Have been running it doing stuff with avi's for the last 24 hours without a glitch.
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