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TT's Mac DivX Viewing Tutorial Viewing DivX movies on Macintosh computers On this page, I, Thomas Tempelmann, try to give Mac users some help with viewing DivX movies on their computers. The tutorial primarily targets Mac OS 9 users. If you're using OS X, this page may still be helpful, but some things may work differently than they're described here. The original page is at: Note: The following information is now quite outdated.
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If you can, use Mac OS X to view your movies, and use either of the following software to view AVI/DivX movies without conversion troubles:,. What are DivX movies, where do they come from?
DivX (along with MPEG-4) is currently the most effective popular method of compressing movies. Other well used formats are MPEG-2 (used on Video DVDs) and MPEG-1 (used on Video CDs). Using DivX, one can compress a full-length movie (usually 70-90 minutes) to fit on a CD and still get quite a good quality out of it. The quality is less than a DVD's, but far better from what a Video CD (or VHS tape) provides. Thus, DivX is the preferred compression format for movies exchanged over the internet.
DivX is very popular on PCs (Windows, and even Linux) and there exists a lot of software to not only watch DivX movies, but to also create them from DVD-Videos or other sources. On the Mac, however, DivX support is only recently appearing. Practically all DivX movies appear as AVI files. AVI is, similar to QuickTime, a container for multimedia data, such as audio and video.
The Mac's QuickTime has limited support for AVI, but you'll see that it'll have a lot of trouble with AVIs containing DivX movies. Details on this issue are further. Where can I find DivX movies? I don't know. I can't tell you. Search the great web.
The site has some free samples. What software do I need to watch a DVD movie? First, you'll need Quicktime 4 or higher installed. I used QT 5.0.2 for all my tests (I can not say if it actually works with QT 4, but others suggested that it should). Then you need a so-called codec (as a Quicktime component), which is software that can decode the DivX format.
I currently know of 3 software packages you can choose from:. from the original DivX makers. OS 9 and OS X versions available.
version 4 supports DivX (do not use 3.5 as it does not support DivX but only the proprietory 3ivX format!). OS 9 and OS X versions available. a french development, OS X only, works but seems not to be updated any more. Note: Codec is an abbreviation for coder/decoder. Usually, a codec is supposed to be able to convert in both directions, that is for both viewing a movie file and for creating one. The currently available codecs for the Mac (as of Apr 2002) are all limited to decoding, though.
This is supposed to change in the future as the makers of the DivX and 3ivX 'codecs' claim. You should also get this additional software:. a tool to convert the sound from AVI files so that QuickTime can handle it.
a sound codec that is necessary for many DivX movies mastered on Windows. two tiny tools by me, their use will be explained below. a sound converter tool that is sometimes needed (DivX Doctor will tell you when). Now, what exactly should I install to watch my DivX movies?
Attention: All the following assumes you are using Mac OS 9, not OS X! Only after writing it all for both OS 9 and X, I found that some of the procedures described here to not work under OS X or behave differently. There are several components you need to have installed. First, one for viewing DivX video tracks: As shown above, there are three different DivX codecs. And from experience I found that you can not have them all installed at the same time (you can, but only one of them will be used and you have to way to switch between them). I suggest you first try the 3ivX codec, which worked just fine for me so far (on a 867 MHz G4 Mac running OS 9.2.2). If that one does not work properly for you, try the DivX or even the 'Easy DivX' codec.
It depends on your individual movies and hardware which one works best. Note that this is for the video part only, not the sound. If you have sound troubles, there's no need to both about fiddling with the video codecs. Caution: Whenever you install one of the video codecs, remove any other DivX codecs and restart the computer (I thought I learned that exchange QT components do not require a restart, but in this case they actually do, it seems to me. Perhaps quitting all QT using apps is good enough, too, but I am not sure about that). Second, you need components for the audio tracks: I suggest you install the WMA and AVI MovieImport components (under OS 9, place them into the folder QuickTime Extensions, which is inside your System Folder's Extensions folder; under OS X they go into /Libary/Quicktime/). Leave them both installed, even if you decide to go with the 3ivX video codec instead of the DivX codec.
Also, make sure that you have enabled automatic document translation in the File Exchange Control Panel if you want to use AVI MovieImport, as shown here: How do I view my DivX movie now? I will use the terms DivX file and AVI (a file ending in '.avi') exchangeably, because your movies are assumed to be both anyways.
Drag your DivX file onto the icon of Type to VfW (from the ). Then open your file (open means: Either select it, then use Open from the Finder's File menu, or simple double click it). The QuickTime Player should be launched and after a few seconds (could take up to 10 seconds on a fast G4 Mac) the movie's window should appear. If you play it, the video should appear fine, but the sound is probably not OK. In rare cases you may even get an error msg telling your that the movie could not be opened because of missing software. There are not 2 ways you can try to fix this: Fixing a movie the DivX way Drag your DivX file onto the icon of Type to DIVX. Then open the movie again in the Finder (which should eventually open the movie in the QT Player).
Make sure that you have at least 1/4 of the movie file's size of extra space on your hard disk because QT will create a temporary file that contains the fixed sound track. The opening process will take much longer, up to several minutes, but when it finally is done, the sound might be OK. (At this point, you can save the converted movie, which will create a new.mov file that you can open in the future in order to avoid the opening delay. But if you save it, make sure you select the 'self-contained' option or you'll lose the converted sound once the temporarily created sound track gets discarded.) But another problem may now be present: the move starts with a white screen, and it takes a few seconds of play before it's a complete picture.
If you want to fix this, you need a registered ( Pro) version of QT 4 or 5 so that you can use the editing features of the QT Player. If you don't have a registered QT version, skip this entire part and try the 3ivX solution below instead. Background: What the Type to DIVX tool did was to enable the DivX's 'AVI MovieImport' component to convert the audio into a proper format (the DivX Validator, provided by the DivX distribution, would do exactly the same supposedly).
But for reasons not understood by me, it also messes up the video track a little. We'll now combine the best of both into a perfect outcome. Here's how you get both sound and video to play nicely, providing that you were able to get good sound at all:. Open the movie again in the QT Player so that it gets the good sound but the bad picture start as explained. From the QT Player menu, choose Edit - Extract Tracks.
And extract the Audio track (if there is no audio track, then you have to use the DivX Doctor procedure instead). You'll end up with a new QT movie that contains the sound only. Save this new sound movie: Choose File - Save (or Cmd-S). In the dialog that appears, switch from Save normally to Make movie self-contained (yes, this is nessary even though it requires a lot of memory on your disk).
Then give it an appropriate name (I suggest using the same name as your AVI movie, just with ending in '.mov' instead of '.avi') and save it, preferrably in the same folder where your original AVI movie is. Note that you must not overwrite your AVI file because you still need to keep that. Close both the new sound-only window and the converted movie window, declining to save its changes (press Cmd-W, Cmd-W, Cmd-D). Drag your DivX file onto the icon of Type to VfW. Open the DivX file again.
This time you should get the original good video with the bad sound as it was originally. From the QT Player menu, choose Edit - Extract Tracks. And extract the Video track. With the newly created Video track window, choose Edit - Select All, then Edit - Copy from the menu (or Cmd-A, Cmd-C). Close both windows again, declining to save changes (press Cmd-W, Cmd-D, Cmd-W).
Open your previously saved sound-only file. Choose Edit - Add from the menu (Cmd-Opt-V). If the DivX setup dialog should appear there (it does, when you did hold the Option key down), just press its 'Set' button to continue. Now test your movie by playing it. If both video and sound is fine, you're done. Rewinding it to the start (press the.