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No Audio in Quicktime and OS X For Your AVI Files?

09/07/2008 05:40 AM Filed in: Apple

Then I’m about to make your day...

As someone who is constantly editing video and trying to find interesting clips for use in sermons, I wanted to give a little advice for those having trouble hearing audio in their AVI files in Quicktime. Sure, you could use VLC Player to play these files, but if you need to edit your videos files like I do, VLC just isn’t a good solution.

For years we’ve had to piece together different audio and video codecs from all over the web and insert them into the Quicktime home folder manually, making it very tedious and time consuming to make sure you have the codecs to play every given video you may need to play or edit.

That ends today. A fine open source community has recently released Perian, the “swiss-army knife for Quicktime.” It’s a single download and install that should beef up your Quicktime player enough for it to handle pretty much any format you throw at it: .mov, .avi, Divx, Flash, etc., etc.

It’s free and it works perfectly; I’ve been banging my head against the wall for a while trying to hear audio for a clip I’m showing in church tomorrow. I downloaded Perian and now the audio is crystal clear. Big sigh of relief!

You can download Perian at their website.

Tags: Quicktime, Apple, OS X, AVI, Mac, Perian