the non-appstore version of mplayerx works fine for me. I hate how hard the seek bar is to see in full screen though. And VLC streams network media much faster than mplayerx
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Quicktime not open .AVI Files ?
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the non-appstore version of mplayerx works fine for me. I hate how hard the seek bar is to see in full screen though. And VLC streams network media much faster than mplayerx
I just checked out MPlayerX yesterday - it's great! Next to that, I use Plex, which has its own perks if you have a media library you want to organize.
Just launched MPlayerX and watched a vid. Ising Mavericks GM.
Just because it crashed on your one system doesn't necessarily mean it's broken in Mavericks, so you should refrain from making global statements like that.
I bought movist recently, its very nice and appears to work perfectly in mavericks as far as I can tell. MplayerX works very well in mavericks too though and that one is free (and was recently updated with mavericks compatibility.)
VLC does definitely seem to have a few issues on mavericks from my usage, mostly relating to fullscreen (there's bugs with both VLC's non-native and native fullscreen in mavericks).
I'd recommend mplayerx and movist hands down over VLC for osx anyway, VLC is kind of meh on osx, both movist and mplayerx have nicer interfaces and seem less buggy.
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There was a known crash bug with mplayerX in mavericks actually. There was a build floating around in these forums that was patched to fix it, but the build from the mplayerx site had the issue (and probably the outdated version in the app store too).
MplayerX was updated on the official site with mavericks compatible build today though:
1.0.18
2013/10/23
Fix: compatible issues with Mavericks (10.9)
Fix: time slider mispositioning
Fix: could not disable subtitles in mts files
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http://mplayerx.org/download.html
I have QT7 on Mavericks and it runs AVI files without converting.
Really wish the quickview option was still working for all my different file types, not just .mov and .mp4.
Clarification: If you have a compatible codec installed, then an attempt to open .avi or another third-party format will result in QuickTime X conversion of the video to .mp4-compatible .mov. After the conversion, QuickTime X will play the converted video.
Hello from the future!
I managed to get the Mountain Lion version of QuickTime X mostly working on Mavericks. https://github.com/Wowfunhappy/QuickTime-Fixer/releases This means you can install Perian and open all the strange codecs!
I'm a little annoyed because there are still some cosmetic issues, particularly when you open audio files. But at least for the moment, I can't figure out how to fix them. I only got as far as I did via lots and lots of trying random things, and I really need to stop now.
Given the above, I'm don't think I'd recommend replacing the system QuickTime with this... but, it depends on how much you care about little visual details, and how frequently you use QuickTime for audio (versus video). It's certainly more polished than VLC and MPlayer, although that's a low bar to clear!
I managed to get the Mountain Lion version of QuickTime X mostly working on Mavericks. https://github.com/Wowfunhappy/QuickTime-Fixer/releases This means you can install Perian and open all the strange codecs!
I'm a little annoyed because there are still some cosmetic issues, particularly when you open audio files. But at least for the moment, I can't figure out how to fix them. I only got as far as I did via lots and lots of trying random things, and I really need to stop now.
Given the above, I'm don't think I'd recommend replacing the system QuickTime with this... but, it depends on how much you care about little visual details, and how frequently you use QuickTime for audio (versus video). It's certainly more polished than VLC and MPlayer, although that's a low bar to clear!
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^ Just kidding, after another day all the visual glitches are gone! I personally have replaced the built-in QuickTime with this one now, it's good enough for me!
The one thing I noticed at the last minute is that the volume slider doesn't work. Kind of strange, but I never understood the point of that anyway...
The one thing I noticed at the last minute is that the volume slider doesn't work. Kind of strange, but I never understood the point of that anyway...
Interesting. Thank you for your work. Are you going to work on it further on? I've always been annoyed with the volume slider of QT had always been maxed out. It's a shame if it's not adjustable now.
Upd. Maybe I'm missing the point here, I have a couple of avi files on which preview still failed. I'd figure this was the goal. I have Perian installed and had no problem with previewing video files aside from avi. I thoough this version would fix that. I probably got it wrong. Just in case, before installing your version I have deleted the default one according to your instructions.
If I try to Open file in QT I have "---could not be opend. This media may have been damaged" popup.
Upd. Maybe I'm missing the point here, I have a couple of avi files on which preview still failed. I'd figure this was the goal. I have Perian installed and had no problem with previewing video files aside from avi. I thoough this version would fix that. I probably got it wrong. Just in case, before installing your version I have deleted the default one according to your instructions.
If I try to Open file in QT I have "---could not be opend. This media may have been damaged" popup.
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A couple things:
• QuickTime 10.2, unlike QuickTime 10.3, is compatible with third-party QuickTime components. However, you still need to actually install said components. The traditional option is Perian, but on Mavericks I've been having a bit more success with RJVB's version of FFusion. It can be found on https://github.com/RJVB/FFusion, but I've attached the component itself to save you from downloading the whole repository. Copy to Library/QuickTime (you may need to create this folder) and then restart QuickTime player. However...
• Even after installing a third party component, you may still be unable to open avi files. This gets into the difference between codecs and container formats—ffusion adds support for DIVX/XVID video streams, but QuickTime may still refuse to open them if they're in an avi container.
For the second point, I have an Applescript app I've named "QuickTime Helper" which takes avi and mkv files which QuickTime won't open, puts them into a mov file, and then has QuickTime open the temporary mov file. Because it's not actually converting the video streams, this can be done quite quickly and with no quality loss.
I shouldn't care, but the Applescript code is still so crappy I kind of don't want to post it publicly yet, but feel free to send me a PM if you're interested.
I don't know if you saw, but I did work a bit further last week. The volume slider is adjustable now, kind of... I couldn't make it do what it's supposed to, so I made it do something else instead. It now controls the global system volume of your computer, like on iOS.
Maybe you'll like this more anyway—it solves the problem of "the volume slider of QT [is always] maxed out." I'm kind of undecided as to whether or not it's an improvement, myself.
At this point, I think I'm done with the QuickTime app itself, unless I discover a new bug, which is very possible. What I'm currently trying to do is update that FFusion component I mentioned above, to support hevc and vp9 videos. This would allow it to play 4K downloads from Youtube.
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