I can't seem to watch any .avi speed runs that have the h264 encoding. I have Quicktime 7.0.4, which should have that built-in, but it won't play the videos. How do I fix this?
I don't think Quicktime has that built in.
Try getting VLC Player (http://www.videolan.org/)
Alternatively you could try getting ffdshow.
Or read the FAQs (link at the top of the page) for more info.
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OmnipotentEntity wrote:
I don't think Quicktime has that built in.
It should have. Apple produced the H.264 codec, and the x264 codec has major contributions by Apple employees. One of the selling points of Mac OS X 10.4 was Quicktime's new killer codec.
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Quicktime only includes a method to decode H.264 streams within Quicktime files, but as far as I know, it does not contain a generic-use VideoForWindows/DirectShow codec for H264 decoding. It's only a Quicktime thing, with no use for anything else.
You don't specify your system, but if you are using Windows, try a codec pack. This one is superb: http://www.free-codecs.com/download/K_Lite_Codec_Pack.htm
(When installing, make sure that ffdshow/h264 is checked. At least some version had it unchecked for some reason.)
I can't seem to watch any .avi speed runs that have the h264 encoding. I have Quicktime 7.0.4, which should have that built-in, but it won't play the videos. How do I fix this?
I have the same problem on my Mac. I use VLC (there's a link on the codec problem page) for playing the .avi files from this site--I can get it to open the h264 files and I'm still using OS X 10.3.9.
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Update VLC.
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Quicktime only includes a method to decode H.264 streams within Quicktime files, but as far as I know, it does not contain a generic-use VideoForWindows/DirectShow codec for H264 decoding. It's only a Quicktime thing, with no use for anything else.
Wrong. QuickTime actually has a perfect, industry standard implementation of H.264, and supports it in all the container formats it is supposed to work with, including .MP4.
The problem is your AVI container which is actually incompatible with the many features of H.264 and MPEG-4 in general, such as B-Frames, etc. Decoders like ffmpeg get around this problem with hacks, but H.264 inside AVI files really shouldn't be encouraged, because it creates compatibility problems like the one mentioned in this thread.
Learn more here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVIhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_container_formats
I also made a thread recommending a solution to this problem here:
http://tasvideos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3594
I'm having trouble with the avi files myself. I've only got 256 RAM and a P3 clone. Pretty nasty I know... but still, I was able to watch the vids fine so long as there wasn't too much motion on the screen at once (ie: not rain or snow)
Now since, I've got 3 GB more free than I had before, MUCH less software and a smoother running machine... you'd think the vids would be running BETTER not WORSE.
Newest H264 codec, WMP, Winamp, and BS Player... nothings working like it once did... should I try VLC?
