Help with AVI - MAC!! PLEASE!!!

[celsorth]

Hello, I'm new to this forum and I really need help. I have tons of south park movies using xvid, but I simply can't play them on my new Mac. I have put the xvid decoder on the library, as it was said on the site. Does somebody know what else I should do!? Oh, I had also used Divx Doctor II. The sound is ok, but the video is blank. Please, help me!!!
Thanx!!!

[celtic_druid]

Try mplayer or VLC.

[celsorth]

Ok, but what if I wan't to put those videos on Itunes, to get them to Ipod?? And why is this happening, if in my powerbook g4 everything goes well?!?! Thanx!!

[celtic_druid]

For an iPod, you should convert to mp4. You also need to stick with SP MPEG-4 Part2, baseline AVC, etc. Also mp3 audio. Because strickly speaking you can simply remux an XviD/mp3 avi to a spec compliant mp4. Probably an iPod won't handle it though. Definatly don't think they can handle mp3 audio (in an mp4 container that is).

[celsorth]

Stupid...

I'm so stupid. My new mac is intel based and the divx codec I was installing was the old one, not supported on intel based macs. I downloaded the latest version and now is everything ok. Anyway, thanks for the help.