I found this article on macosxhints.com, which talks about a third-party codec pack called Perian, which enables Quicktime to playback: “Divx, XviD, FLV, AVI, MS-MPEG4 v1, MS-MPEG4 v2, MS-MPEG4 v3, DivX 3.11 alpha, 3ivX, Sorenson H.263, Flash Screen Video, Truemotion VP6, and these formats when they are inside an AVI file — h.264, mpeg4, AAC, AC3 Audio, and VBR MP3.” (quoted from robg on macosxhints.com). Full article here.
Many people today that are buying new macs, especially Mac mini’s, would most likely welcome this added functionality to Quicktime. Apple’s Front Row, which is a cute, easy and intuitive interface to using your Mac as a media center, is a great way to watch all your great vids that you’ve found on the web. However, not everything on the web is in Apple’s .mov or mp4 format, which makes playing things back using Quicktime and Front Row rather useless. Perian looks to be the anser to this folly, and I look forward to really taking advantage of it when I buy an Intel mini.
For now, sadly I’ll just have to utilize it on my Powerbook G4. Sigh
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