Can XVID movies play in front row?

[ieani]

I downloaded and installed the xvid for mac codec and I still get a black screen when I try to play an xvid video. Any ideas?

 

[Eidorian]

You can't play them in Front Row.

 

[milo]

You can't play them in Front Row.

Just tried it, works fine. You just need need the universal version of the xvid codec.

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/190105/

 

[Eidorian]

Just tried it, works fine. You just need need the universal version of the xvid codec.

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/190105/

That might mean something as well. So anything with the proper Quicktime codecs will play in Front Row?

 

[jimsowden]

That might mean something as well. So anything with the proper Quicktime codecs will play in Front Row?

Yep. Frontrow just uses quicktime for movies, itunes for audio, iphoto for picture slideshows. Pretty simple integration.

 

[Eidorian]

Yep. Frontrow just uses quicktime for movies, itunes for audio, iphoto for picture slideshows. Pretty simple integration.

Ah, I thought it was limited to basic Quicktime support and not plugins as well.

 

[Sdashiki]

Anything that uses Quicktime as its video playback "device" will play anything your Quicktime Player app can play.

If it plays in QT fine, itll play in FR fine.

If it doesnt play in QT (like missing audio etc), but DOES play in VLC, FR will only play what QT plays.

 

[ieani]

http://www.mikecpeck.com/2006/04/play-xvid-movies-on-intel-mac.php

Got it to work.

 

[Lollypop]

http://www.mikecpeck.com/2006/04/play-xvid-movies-on-intel-mac.php

Got it to work.

Cool! One less reason to use VLC. To bad quicktime doesnt support all the formats that VLC does though.

 

[MacsRgr8]

http://www.mikecpeck.com/2006/04/play-xvid-movies-on-intel-mac.php

Got it to work.

Excellent!!!

Tnx!

 

[wmmk]

Yep. Frontrow just uses quicktime for movies, itunes for audio, iphoto for picture slideshows. Pretty simple integration.

itunes is acttually quicktme with more features and a different GUI
iphoto is driven by preview in the same way as qt driven itunes
front row is just another step off of iphoto and itunes.

 

[Philberttheduck]

Couple that with DivX and 95% works. Front Row compatible.

 

[janey]

itunes is acttually quicktme with more features and a different GUI
iphoto is driven by preview in the same way as qt driven itunes
front row is just another step off of iphoto and itunes.

to be picky, iTunes, iPhoto, QuickTime, Front Row and all those great apps are probably QTKit based..just, separate so the user doesn't have to deal with photo editing if all they want to do is listen to a few MP3s.