Help - playing DivX and Xvid with Quicktime

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I searched google on how to play divx and xvid files with quicktime and found this:
Apple's list of components for quicktime

From that site, I clicked the links to go to:
DivX codec, but I already have the divx codec installed. I didn't see anything there specifically for Quicktime.

and then went to:
Xvid codec: I go to their download page, but I don't know which is the one I need.

Any help would be great.

I can play those videos right now using WMP, but I want to join a couple of them into one video and would like to use Quicktime's capabilities for that because it is a lot faster (no rendering, just flattens the movies into one). You know, like joining two .mov files together.
 
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tlarkin said:
I don't bother with codecs anymore and just use VLC for everything since it plays every thing.

www.videolan.org

Do you need to have this working in quicktime?
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Yeah, as I mentioned at the end of my post, I want that ability in quicktime so I can join videos together a heck of a lot faster than other programs that take forever rendering the combination into one single video. That's my whole point to this.
 
PC Hobbyist said:
Yeah, as I mentioned at the end of my post, I want that ability in quicktime so I can join videos together a heck of a lot faster than other programs that take forever rendering the combination into one single video. That's my whole point to this.
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yeah okay i must have missed that part, my bad

are you working on a mac or a PC?
 
The_Other_One said:
Try Media Player Classic. I don't think quicktime would be any faster than it :P
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Really, you can join videos into one using MP Classic? I'll have to check that out.

Quicktime will join several videos that end up being about 50 minutes long in only about 20 seconds - tops. Other video editing programs take A LOT longer as you sit and watch the different scenes being rendered into one video.
 
well, I bet there is conversion software from .mov to .divix but when you start changing formats over and over again you tend to lose some quality of your videos.

Also, IIRC, only quick time Pro has that feature.

I was hoping you were on a mac because I was just gonna say launch imovie problem solved.

I am not sure if there is an easy way to accomplish what you want. since most of the solutions I tend to find for quicktime and what you want are for the Mac platform.
 
The_Other_One said:
Try Media Player Classic. I don't think quicktime would be any faster than it :P
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@ The_Other_One: I just looked into MP Classic and I don't see how you can join several videos into one. I have MP Classic from installing Real Alternative. Is that the one you mean? :confused:
 
tlarkin said:
...I am not sure if there is an easy way to accomplish what you want. since most of the solutions I tend to find for quicktime and what you want are for the Mac platform.
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Yeah, I don't know if it will end up working, but since I found that apple says there are divx and xvid codecs for Quicktime, I thought maybe it should work somehow.

For example, I have several short videos shot with my digital camera's video function. Those are saved as "general" .avi files. I can use QT Pro to join them into one video with output as .mov (which is fine by me).
I have other .avi files that are divx and xvid encoded. When I try to open those with QT to join them, I run into problems. QT won't even play them.

Thanks for trying. I'll keep looking into it to see what I can find.
 
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