At 9:00 AM +0000 4/12/2010, Power Macintosh wrote:
Unfortunately with the advent of Mac OS X it is becoming
increasingly hard to locate software to allow older Macintosh
computers to operate.
Google is your friend.
Especially search these LEM lists. Issues such as this have been
discussed over and over.
Power Macintosh 8500 upgraded to a 500 MHz G3
Mac OS 9.1.
I was interested in being able to play AVI videos on the machine
however I have no idea about how to go about it. I believe Quicktime
needs some sort of extension or CoDec, I just don't know what the
software would be called in order to try and locate it.
See the other replies. Bottom line: AVI is a container that can
contain data formatted many ways. The most common are: the old
Indeo codecs, various MS (some proprietary) wmv, and now DivX.
The Indeo codecs are available via Apple's web site.
If it's an older windows media video codec, then try this player from
Microsoft:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/610326/Windows%20Media%20Player%207.1%20Installer.zip
If it's a newer wmv codec, then you're probably out of luck on OS 9.
If it's DivX, then get an older release from divx.com.
HTH,
- Dan.
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