Its an undeniable truth. At some point of everyone’s life we’ve either downloaded videos ourselves or inadvertently got our grimy hands on a video that was downloaded by someone else.
For those of us who are relatively ‘new’ to the Mac platform one of the first things we will realise (rudely or otherwise) is that Quicktime doesn’t play all formats or rather the ‘popular’ formats downloaded movies come in. Notably, wmv, divx or avi.
So, for the benefit of those of us who are swearing at our Macs and how come it cannot play downloaded videos here’s a definitive list of free open source codecs and tools that will make life ‘bright and beautiful’ again:
Just click on the links in the list above, download and install the components and then download the most popular video player for Mac OS X that handles almost any format – VLC.
This article is dedicated to Chris, because he asked and he’s found happiness on his new Mac… enjoy mate!