Quick time player

Rennuka · 06-20-2009, 03:52 PM

Hi

Im cant watch a movie from an USB on QuickTime Player. I can only hear the sound, but cant see anything on the screen?

What to do

?

Renuka

sinclair_tm · 06-20-2009, 07:27 PM

What do you mean you can't watch a video from an USB? A USB what? What kind of video is it?

Rennuka · 06-21-2009, 02:09 AM

Nothing appears on the screen when I play the movie, I can only hear the sound. Hmm its a 4GB USB stick. The movie is download as an avi-file, if that make sense:-)

sinclair_tm · 06-24-2009, 08:44 PM

Okay, it has nothing to do with the USB stick, and everything to do with the AVI file. THe problem is that QuickTime doesn't have the codec to play the video part of the file. AVI files are just a container file that holds a video file and a sound file and instructions on how to keep them in sync when played back. You should download Flip4Mac and [url"http://www.divx.com/en/products/software/mac/divx"] Divx[/url] so that you can play AVI files via QuickTime.

**blah789** · 06-27-2009, 09:53 PM

A more surefire way in quicktime would be to click on window, show movie inspector. What does it say under format? If it's DX50 then yes, DivX would work. If it's something else you'll have to search for it.
Flip4Mac adds the capability to view WMV and ASF files. DivX would be for DivX-encoded AVI's. Perian adds a plethora of additional codecs for AVI.
If you find an AVI encoded in a really exotic format (in particular in a codec not available for QuickTime), try VLC or MPlayer OS X.

06-20-2009, 03:52 PM	#1 (permalink)
Rennuka Registered User Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 2 OS: mac, leopard	Quick time player Hi Im cant watch a movie from an USB on QuickTime Player. I can only hear the sound, but cant see anything on the screen? What to do? Renuka

06-21-2009, 02:09 AM	#3 (permalink)
Rennuka Registered User Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 2 OS: mac, leopard	Re: Quick time player Nothing appears on the screen when I play the movie, I can only hear the sound. Hmm its a 4GB USB stick. The movie is download as an avi-file, if that make sense:-)

06-27-2009, 09:53 PM	#5 (permalink)
blah789 TSF Enthusiast Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 2,314 OS: Windows 2000 SP4 and Windows XP SP3	Re: Quick time player A more surefire way in quicktime would be to click on window, show movie inspector. What does it say under format? If it's DX50 then yes, DivX would work. If it's something else you'll have to search for it. Flip4Mac adds the capability to view WMV and ASF files. DivX would be for DivX-encoded AVI's. Perian adds a plethora of additional codecs for AVI. If you find an AVI encoded in a really exotic format (in particular in a codec not available for QuickTime), try VLC or MPlayer OS X.