![]() XVID means XviD, which is a different product than DivX, but as far as the user is concerned they are interchangeable. DIV3, DIV4, DIV5, MP43, DIVX, DX50, all mean divx. Under video format, IV32, IV41 and IV50 mean Indeo Video 3.2, 4.1, and 5.0, respectively. You can find out what codec an AVI needs by opening it in Quicktime Player and looking in the Info window (command-I in QT 5 and above). Once you're sure it's an AVI, you need the right decompressor (or codec, which means COmpressor/DECompressor), as quicktime probably told you in an error message. I don't have pictures, but OGM and OGG files start with "OggS" and MKV, MKA and MKS files have "matroska" in the first 16 characters or so. Alternatively, you can open the file in a Hex Editor like He圎dit. asf, Windows Media Player (WMP) adds type and/or creator codes so changing the type back to avi or mpeg will be more difficult. So it might actually be an ASF file or MPEG-1 or -2. Windows users often think "AVI" means "computer movie file" (in fact it stands for Audio Video Interleave and the format was created by Microsoft, who has long since abandonned it in favor of ASF-"Advanced Streaming Format" and WMV-"Windows Media Video", the two of which all evidence indicates are exactly the same). Why Does My Large MPEG Only Play A Few Minutes?įirst, make sure it's an AVI.
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