Codec Pack for all the new Mac Users!

  • Posted by Shaun
  • December 27, 2006

quicktime.jpgHere’s a codec pack I made with just about all of the codecs you’ll need for your new shiny mac you might of been fortounate enough to unwrap over the holidays.

While I swear by my Mac, I can’t say I’m aware of any Codec packs for Mac, and if there are it’s nothing like on Windows. This should make your movie viewing a bit easier.

Some might tell you to just download Perian, because it does everything. Perian advertises itself as the “swiss knife for QuickTime components”. It’s not. I’ve had terrible experiences with it, it’s XviD and DivX support are terrible. This package included Perian, because it does play some stuff, but it also includes the native intel builds for AC3 audio/XviD Video as well as DivX, WMV, etc..

You’re going to want to download the zip, extract it and move all of the .component files to /Library/Quicktime. The easiest way to get there, is open finder and do the following key combo: apple key + shift + g, and paste in this path: “/Library/Quicktime” and hit enter. From there, just drag the files into that folder and you’ll be good to go!

Enjoy.

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Update: A lot of people have been suggesting VLC instead of using quicktime. VLC is a great app, I use it from time to time. The problem with VLC is that sure it has all the codecs bundled, but they’re only for VLC. You still can’t watch XviD or DivX, etc in FrontRow, or anything else that uses QuickTime as its video core.

Update 2: I’ve updated the AC3 Audio component that was bundled with it, the original one was causing Front Row to crash.

Update 3: There is now a PPC component bundle.

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Comment Number:
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Written by:
Paul Stamatiou
Posted on:
December 28, 2006 at 1:27 am

For me it says

Could not extract the file “AviImporter-r7 (Intel).component/Contents”
Could not create directory

I’ll try redownloading it though.

Comment Number:
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Written by:
Paul Stamatiou
Posted on:
December 28, 2006 at 1:29 am

Update: I used the BOMArchiveHelper instead of the Unarchiver and it decompressed it successfully. I already have all of these components though. =/

Comment Number:
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Written by:
Andrew
Posted on:
December 28, 2006 at 1:32 am

Why not just download VLC player or Mplayer OS X? The codecs are included in those packages… so everytime you update them, the codecs are auto updated… and when you delete them, the codecs go too. Much less system clutter. Unless you’re doing video editing and you actually need codecs installed in your system directory, this is pointless.

If you know this will help you, however, by all means go for it. For some, it could be quite useful…

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Written by:
Andri
Posted on:
December 28, 2006 at 1:40 am

I still recommend people to use Videolan (VLC). It is by far the best video player out there especially since the latest version supports WMV playback as well.

But if you really use Frontrow alot then I guess this helps.

Comment Number:
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Written by:
Chris
Posted on:
December 28, 2006 at 1:41 am

Nice work man - given how easy macs are for the everyday enduser, it is high time something like this was made available. Should make watching movies in whatever format easy as pie!

Comment Number:
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VLC
Posted on:
December 28, 2006 at 1:45 am

the newest version of VLC (0.9) is universal, it can play basically anything you throw at it and has full screen controls just like quicktime, so why bother wasting time with codecs

Comment Number:
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Written by:
Jake
Posted on:
December 28, 2006 at 2:04 am

Very cool, thanks so much!

Comment Number:
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Written by:
Vineet
Posted on:
December 28, 2006 at 2:11 am

This is a neat post! I remember how frustrating it was getting video to work then I got my first Mac in January 2006. Very helpful.

Comment Number:
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Written by:
Hans
Posted on:
December 28, 2006 at 2:11 am

I believe you mean “Command Shift G” (not “go”)

I can’t wait to watch Divx in Front Row :)

Comment Number:
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Written by:
» Media Codec Pack for Intel Macs
Posted on:
December 28, 2006 at 2:18 am

[…] The codec pack can be downloaded from here at jacknjake.com […]

Comment Number:
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Written by:
pdiddy
Posted on:
December 28, 2006 at 2:18 am

This is a great idea!

Comment Number:
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Written by:
Guy
Posted on:
December 28, 2006 at 2:25 am

Ever heard of VLC? Quicktime is for…you guessed it, quicktime files.

Comment Number:
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Written by:
Mike
Posted on:
December 28, 2006 at 2:27 am

go should say ‘g’, as in cmd shift g :)

Comment Number:
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Written by:
Chris Kelley
Posted on:
December 28, 2006 at 2:29 am

Thanks a lot! I’ve been using various solutions patched together to make everything work… I just reinstalled everything and the first thing I did was hop on digg and see this. Awesome!

Comment Number:
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Written by:
ketsugi
Posted on:
December 28, 2006 at 2:39 am

Would be nice if you described in the post exactly what codecs are included in this bundle.

I’m still looking for a good x264 Quicktime component…

Comment Number:
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Written by:
Smileplease
Posted on:
December 28, 2006 at 2:54 am

Codec pack per Quicktime su Intel Mac…

Fino ad oggi, la moltiplicazione dei formati video ha spesso costretto gli utenti Mac ad utilizzare diverse applicazioni per aprire diversi formati. Per esempio:Quicktime per i .movVLC per i .avi Windows Media Player per i .wmv Ora, grazie ad un pacche…

Comment Number:
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Written by:
Daniel Fischer
Posted on:
December 28, 2006 at 3:08 am

Hey, that helped me play a video that never worked up until now. THanks man :)

Comment Number:
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Written by:
Huy
Posted on:
December 28, 2006 at 3:47 am

Why not just use VLC?

www.videolan.org/vlc

Comment Number:
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Written by:
JT
Posted on:
December 28, 2006 at 4:31 am

Well you could install VLC and forget about all of this… (much better option)

Comment Number:
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Written by:
RjT
Posted on:
December 28, 2006 at 4:36 am

Nice im about to start playing with Hackintosh will see if this works on it aswell :)

Comment Number:
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Written by:
astrange
Posted on:
December 28, 2006 at 4:44 am

What are the video FourCCs of the files that won’t play in Perian alone?

Comment Number:
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Written by:
Colonels1020
Posted on:
December 28, 2006 at 5:08 am

Perian has always played XviD and DivX fine for me…

Comment Number:
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Written by:
Ben H
Posted on:
December 28, 2006 at 5:10 am

Thanks for this, I’ll try it out and see how it goes. Do the codecs only operate in Quicktime? or will they work in VLC and others now?
Also, is there any web plugin for WMV here?

Comment Number:
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Written by:
Andy S
Posted on:
December 28, 2006 at 5:11 am

Woot! Thanks!

Comment Number:
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Written by:
Paul
Posted on:
December 28, 2006 at 5:15 am

I downloaded VLC media player right when I got my new MacBook. It is much better than quicktime, and you really won’t need any of these codecs.

Comment Number:
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Written by:
tornsuits
Posted on:
December 28, 2006 at 5:16 am

Thanks dude!

Comment Number:
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Written by:
Chris Garrett
Posted on:
December 28, 2006 at 5:25 am

Thanks for this, I am brand new to the mac so didn’t have a clue how to get some of these media types to play, you saved me a lot of googling!

Comment Number:
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Written by:
Rob
Posted on:
December 28, 2006 at 5:55 am

Awesome job man, this works great for me. Thanks for posting it!

Comment Number:
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Written by:
Nathen
Posted on:
December 28, 2006 at 6:00 am

Nice package.

Cheers Mate.

Nathen

Comment Number:
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Written by:
Henry Blackman
Posted on:
December 28, 2006 at 6:39 am

The AC3 codec included is poor. I’ve been using it for a while, and found that any AC3 encoded DIVX or XVID videos will crash Front Row immediately.

Rather than the included AC3 Codec, use the codec pack found here:

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/27300

This one allows Core Audio to have AC3 sound, and does not crash. It’s great!

Comment Number:
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Written by:
Chris Forsythe
Posted on:
December 28, 2006 at 7:05 am

And have you reported any of these problems to us?

Comment Number:
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Written by:
aspenridge
Posted on:
December 28, 2006 at 7:37 am

thanx 4 doin this!

many new switchers from WIN are sorta lost when it comes to this sorta stuff, since “from-the-start”-macusers are generally clueless when it comes to piracy, and let’s face it, if piracy didn’t exist, you wouldn’t need codec packs :-)

CHEERS M8

Comment Number:
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Written by:
Richard
Posted on:
December 28, 2006 at 7:49 am

I love you.

Comment Number:
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Written by:
bk
Posted on:
December 28, 2006 at 8:09 am

This is a great idea. You need a dedicated URL for this pack, so it’s easy to post and share.

Comment Number:
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Written by:
someone
Posted on:
December 28, 2006 at 8:21 am

VLC works really well on OSX (http://videolan.org). Plays everything, has full screen, and is of course open source/free software.

Comment Number:
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Written by:
Cedric
Posted on:
December 28, 2006 at 8:47 am

Finally someone who as the amazing idea to make a codec for MAC and even better Mac Intel !!! Thank you so much and hope that you are going to keep them up to date :-)
Good luck for the futur !!!

Comment Number:
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Written by:
steve odom
Posted on:
December 28, 2006 at 10:05 am

Worked like a charm. Thanks.

Comment Number:
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Written by:
Lawerance Oak
Posted on:
December 28, 2006 at 10:15 am

Does these codecs work on G5 Powermacs? I just us VLC or Divx player and love the features I get with those for free compared to Quicktime. Full SCREEN without having to pay for it. F quicktime!

But I am willing to give this a try if it works with G5!

Comment Number:
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Written by:
Mayo
Posted on:
December 28, 2006 at 10:31 am

Just read about this on spiegel.de and downloaded it. Great work, works really fine.

Comment Number:
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Written by:
Chito
Posted on:
December 28, 2006 at 10:33 am

thanks!

“following key combo: apple key shift go”
should be apple key shift g

Comment Number:
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Written by:
Broke
Posted on:
December 28, 2006 at 10:38 am

This doesn’t work. Its missing the application components of at least Flip4Mac and i believe DivX

Comment Number:
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Written by:
Element
Posted on:
December 28, 2006 at 10:47 am

Thanks for the package.
It is going to save me a lot of time. Cheers,

Comment Number:
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Written by:
A Macuser
Posted on:
December 28, 2006 at 11:03 am

You know you just have to download mplayer and it has all the Codec’s you need.

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html

Comment Number:
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Written by:
TizzyD
Posted on:
December 28, 2006 at 11:09 am

Thanks for the assembly. I had a few items you had as well, but some were not there, and others were superceded by yours. Appreciate it, and again, thanks.

Comment Number:
45
Written by:
RunLevelZero
Posted on:
December 28, 2006 at 11:50 am

Nice man. Thanks a lot. I can tell that my vids do look better and more file types do play. I totally appreciate it and hope you keep it up. Maybe put it on version tracker or something so we can more easily tell when you update it? Thanks again for you work and time.

Comment Number:
46
Written by:
running
Posted on:
December 28, 2006 at 12:14 pm

Does it include SRT or SUB support?

Comment Number:
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Written by:
Peter
Posted on:
December 28, 2006 at 12:19 pm

Since I have no idea who “Jack & Jake” are, I’d have to recommend sticking to Perian Flip4Mac QuickTime, falling back to VLC, instead. I can play everything I can find on QT Perian Flip4Mac, I’d love to find out what movies are coming out that are suddenly unplayable…

Comment Number:
48
Written by:
Shaun
Posted on:
December 28, 2006 at 12:44 pm

@Henry Blackman:

Thanks, I’ve update the Codec Pack with the new AC3 component.

Comment Number:
49
Written by:
Saverio
Posted on:
December 28, 2006 at 12:52 pm

@Peter

We didn’t make any of these codecs, they’re just freely available on the internet. We just put them all together in one nice place so everyone could use them without the headache of searching for the right ones. As for VLC, FrontRow and a majority of Apple products utilize the Quicktime Core for video playback. VLC is awesome, but it doesn’t install the codec’s into Quicktime, so you lose the ability to use some other software. I use VLC and Quicktime for everything. Great combo!

Comment Number:
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Written by:
JT
Posted on:
December 28, 2006 at 1:21 pm

This thing kicks (_I_)

Comment Number:
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Written by:
Saverio
Posted on:
December 28, 2006 at 1:42 pm

Well, yes and no. I’ll agree with you by saying that 90% of videos encoded with DivX or one of the other codecs are probably pirated, but that doesn’t mean these are for piracy specifically. There’s a lot of legit content that utilizes some of the included codecs.

Comment Number:
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Written by:
jhn
Posted on:
December 28, 2006 at 1:49 pm

I agree, you should stick with Perian and Flip4Mac for Quicktime. Neater and more organized. It gets way too messy mucking about with codecs here and there.

Anything they can’t handle, use VLC. VLC supports the Apple Remote, by the way, and has a nice heads-up display.

Comment Number:
53
Written by:
Saverio
Posted on:
December 28, 2006 at 1:57 pm

Perian has a decent share of issues with DivX. It’s great for a lot of things though, it’s included in the bundle.

Also, to the author of Perian, the reason I’ve never reported the issues with DivX is because I didn’t have the interest to. I wasn’t testing Perian, I was trying to watch a movie. When the movie didn’t work, my priority was to fix the codec problem and download DivX,  not report the issue to Perian and wait for a fix. Although, in the spirit of developing a good product, I’ll be sure to report anything next time it occurs.

Comment Number:
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Written by:
iowapipe
Posted on:
December 28, 2006 at 4:18 pm

What about the codec available from the Divx site (labs.divx.com I think)? Once I installed that QT worked just fine for playback.

And for those who don’t know about codecs - don’t install many different packs thinking the more the better. Concflicts ‘often’ arise. Keep is simple - great motto.

Comment Number:
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Written by:
Dale
Posted on:
December 28, 2006 at 5:49 pm

Some apps use Quicktime to play back videos (like frontrow), so VLC is only part of the solution. Excellent work, thanks for hosting the download.

Comment Number:
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Written by:
SiR Gad
Posted on:
December 28, 2006 at 6:08 pm

VLC is an excellent Swiss army knife-type mediaplayer, but I’ve been using it for about three years, and boy, it’s certainly not as stable as QT. It’s probably wiped out for me a dozen times today alone. QT is far less likely to do that. Also, try getting codec data on a currently playing file and revel in the lack of information. QT is far more detailed - to the extent that VLC looks like it doesn’t really present any codec info at all.

Comment Number:
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Written by:
Like Your Work » Blog Archive » links for 2006-12-29
Posted on:
December 28, 2006 at 7:27 pm

[…] Codec Pack for all the new Mac Users! at Jack ‘n’ Jake (tags: apple osx Mac video) […]

Comment Number:
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Written by:
Guy Kuo
Posted on:
December 28, 2006 at 7:56 pm

Check the codec file versions if you already hav some in your machine before replacing existing ones. The ones in the pack here may not necessarily be newer than the one installed on you machine. The intel DiVix components in the pack I just downloaded were older than the ones already in my MacBook.

Comment Number:
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Written by:
De beaux codec pour votre mac Intel at Jean-Francois Durocher Network
Posted on:
December 28, 2006 at 8:02 pm

[…] Voici un merveilleux pack de codecs fournit par le site web jacknjake.com ce pack contient tout les codecs nécessaires pour vous permettre d’écouter tout les types de vidéo que vous pourrez télécharger sur internet.Pour installer celui-ci, vous n’avez qu’à télécharger le fichier zip, l’extraire et envoyer tout les fichiers .component vers le dossier /Library/Quicktime. […]

Comment Number:
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Written by:
jud
Posted on:
December 29, 2006 at 12:46 am

vlc dose not help if you are using frontrow.

Comment Number:
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Written by:
Frank
Posted on:
December 29, 2006 at 1:24 am

I’d like to 2nd the request for a quick list of what each codec does, rather than just blindly follow the instructions to install all of them. Of course, still a huge thanks for putting the group together.

Comment Number:
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Written by:
Trevor
Posted on:
December 29, 2006 at 2:38 am

it’s XviD and DivX support are terrible –>
its XviD and DivX support are terrible

Comment Number:
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Written by:
club mAc | news links info und knowhow » Blog Archive » Media@mAc
Posted on:
December 29, 2006 at 5:25 am

[…] EDIT: Ich habe heute noch etwas für euch gefunden. Das Jack’n’Jake Codec Pack für Quick Time. Ist eine Sammlung von Codecs, die in Quick Time integriert werden und so auch über Front Row abspielbar sind. Danke an Mac-Essentials für den Tipp! […]

Comment Number:
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Written by:
Tony
Posted on:
December 29, 2006 at 5:35 am

For use vlc in Front View there is a great app called mira….

Comment Number:
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Written by:
Vince
Posted on:
December 29, 2006 at 5:47 am

What I’d like to know is where you got that FLV.component from…

Comment Number:
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Written by:
Foxblog » Blog Archive » Quicktimeplugins
Posted on:
December 29, 2006 at 7:13 am

[…] http://www.jacknjake.com/2006/12/27/codec-pack-for-all-the-new-mac-users/ […]

Comment Number:
67
Written by:
Robby
Posted on:
December 29, 2006 at 7:31 am

Are you aware of Perian (www.perian.org)?

Comment Number:
68
Written by:
Vince
Posted on:
December 29, 2006 at 8:14 am

Of course I’m aware of Perian. But that doesn’t answer my question. The FLV.component is included in the codec pack _in addition to_ the Perian.component. Does anybody know where this FLV.component is taken from? So far I got along pretty well with the FLV support delivered by Perian.. I’m not sure whether I should install an extra component for it.

Comment Number:
69
Written by:
Cool 'n' Casual
Posted on:
December 29, 2006 at 11:34 am

Thanks a lot for the great pack! This is the one of its kind on the Mac platform. Thanks again! :)

Comment Number:
70
Written by:
Kalessin
Posted on:
December 29, 2006 at 12:36 pm

Got to laugh at all the losers who post their comments “Have you heard of VLC?” “Why not use VLC?” “There’s an app called VLC which will…” etc) without reading what all the like-minded lamers above them wrote (except for the first person to mention VLC, of course). If you’re not reading other people’s comments, what makes you think people will read yours? What a waste of air.

@ Lawrence Dudley — Here’s a ligitimate use of codecs:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=774506

Alas, this codec pack doesn’t have what I need either.

Comment Number:
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Written by:
Johnny
Posted on:
December 30, 2006 at 3:19 am

For all those that are recommending VLC!

Sure VLC is a great App without needing extra plugins.
But if you’re gonna use Front Row, you’re gonna need some plugins for Quicktime to read the files.

If you’ve never used Front Row then you just don’t understand the real issue.

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Posted on:
December 30, 2006 at 6:40 am

[…] http://www.jacknjake.com/2006/12/27/codec-pack-for-all-the-new-mac-users/ […]

Comment Number:
73
Written by:
OwlBoy
Posted on:
December 30, 2006 at 9:54 am

Not sure why your having so much trouble with Perian.

-Owl

Comment Number:
74
Written by:
yoZi » Mac OS X Intel Codec Pack!
Posted on:
January 2, 2007 at 11:26 pm

[…] While I swear by my Mac, I can’t say I’m aware of any Codec packs for Mac, and if there are it’s nothing like on Windows. This should make your movie viewing a bit easier.”read more | digg story […]

Comment Number:
75
Written by:
Daniel
Posted on:
January 3, 2007 at 6:48 am

Works great! =) Thanx

The only thing missing is subtitle support…

// D

Comment Number:
76
Written by:
Yuvi
Posted on:
January 4, 2007 at 3:00 am

Alright, several people have asked for a rundown of what each of the components in this pack do and what happens when they’re all together. Here’s a rundown:

A52Codec.component - decodes AC3/A52 audio.
AC3Codec.component - decodes AC3/A52 audio. Tends to have issues, especially after a few seeks. PPC only. Overridden by A52Codec.component.
AC3MovieImport.component - opens .ac3 files.
AviImporter-r7.component - opens .avi files. Overridden by Perian.component.
DivX Decoder.component - opens .avi files and decodes DivX and Xvid video. Tends to have issues with some Xvid and old DivX files. The .avi importer is overridden by Perian.component and the Xvid decoder is overridden by XviD_Codec.component.
DivX Encoder.component - encodes DivX video. Doesn’t actually work without DivX Toolkit.framework installed.
Flip4Mac WMV Export.component - encodes .wmv files.
Flip4Mac WMV Import.component - opens .wmv files and decodes WMV and WMA.
FLV.component - encodes .flv files. Doesn’t actually work without Flash 8 installed.
Perian.component - opens .avi and .flv, decodes DivX, Xvid, MS-MPEG4 variants, Flash video, VP6, H.264 in AVI, etc. Some of the decoders are overridden by DivX Decoder.component and XviD_Codec.component.
XviD_Codec-r58.component - decodes and encodes Xvid video. Interferes with playback of some old DivX files (fourcc DIV3).
XVIDDelegate - nothing. (it was written to enable Xvid decoding through the DivX decoder before DivX officially supported it.)

Also note that it is a violation of the EULA of the DivX, Flip4Mac, and FLV components to redistribute them yourself.

Comment Number:
77
Written by:
Brad Maglinger
Posted on:
January 6, 2007 at 9:06 pm

Nice pack, Man, but they’re right. Use VLC, it will play anything.

Comment Number:
78
Written by:
Ingo
Posted on:
January 8, 2007 at 9:15 am

Hi,
I used the ppc-version and now my finder crashes when I activate an avi-file (10.3.9 and qt7pro). Has someone else also got this phenomenon?
Thanx for your feedback.
Bye, Ingo

Comment Number:
79
Written by:
JB
Posted on:
January 9, 2007 at 8:56 am

Worked like a charm. Thanks.

Comment Number:
80
Written by:
Bob
Posted on:
January 11, 2007 at 10:16 am

Thanks so much, I have been having nightmares with this stuff, and it has been a great help. I’m a teacher and both myself and my class thank you for doing this!

Comment Number:
81
Written by:
defender
Posted on:
January 13, 2007 at 1:44 pm

Thanks a lot for this! It’s all well and good telling people to ‘just use vlc’ but vlc don’t work with frontrow!

Comment Number:
82
Written by:
Oliver Jackson
Posted on:
January 15, 2007 at 11:23 am

“Ever heard of VLC?”
“Ever heard of VLC?”
“Ever heard of VLC?”

Ever think before you open your mouth?

There are several reasons you might want to use Quicktime instead of that marvelous app VLC - mostly because it’s a core system component. You want to burn a Divx file to CD/DVD to watch on your TV? You need to be able to read it in Quicktime.

Frontrow, iTunes, Toast and many other media apps are all enhanced tremendously with these codecs.

Comment Number:
83
Written by:
jonvdveen
Posted on:
January 15, 2007 at 1:39 pm

I really appreciate the work that was done to prepare this codec pack! It works quite well and it is a great enhancement to FrontRow!
I will certainly be featuring this product on my blog and website!

Comment Number:
84
Written by:
Cris Burke
Posted on:
January 19, 2007 at 5:34 pm

Folder quicktime is read only, How can I copy the stuff inside?

I’m a switcher with little knowledge at the moment. Thank’s for help.

Cris

Comment Number:
85
Written by:
hgenti
Posted on:
January 20, 2007 at 2:22 am

thanks for this.

i’m sick of people telling me to use vlc when i have codec problems. i download video files to actually BURN them, and if they don’t play in quicktime, they won’t play when you encode and burn them.

i had all but 3 of these. you should stick the ac3 codec (different from the ac3 movieimport) in there too. it is the one that fixes problems with missing sound. took me a year to find it.

unfortunately, this bundle added to my 30+ codecs i’ve already installed, still doesn’t fix this problem i’m having. avi plays perfect in vlc (whoopee), but in quicktime, the sound is perfect but i get this scrambled video that looks like triangles overlayed on a checkerboard. any ideas?

Comment Number:
86
Written by:
Sin
Posted on:
January 20, 2007 at 6:56 pm

VLC sucks… its crashes and crashes and crashes again, thx for the codecs =)

Comment Number:
87
Written by:
sambo
Posted on:
January 21, 2007 at 2:17 am

One major issue I have with VLC is that it doesn’t play full-screen on a second display. I have an old eMac that functions as my media center with a 29″ LCD hanging off of it. Quicktime plays movies fullscreen on the LCD like a champ, but VLC demands a window. Feh. Quicktime for the win. Thanks for this codec pack!

Comment Number:
88
Written by:
mike
Posted on:
January 25, 2007 at 2:30 pm

excellent pack! made my day. as I just bought a new macbook pro I looked intro front row and I am using it alot, couldnt figure out why some of the divxs wouldnt play in front row - so I installed this pack and voila! thanks a bunch!

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Written by:
Gaurav Patel
Posted on:
January 27, 2007 at 10:09 am

Wow, thanks for compiling such a thing. I did not even know there was an Intel port of the DivX codec!

I was wondering though, how would one get to play x264 encoded videos under the .mkv container? I have tried various components for OT and have failed each time!

If you do know please email me or drop a reply here!

Thanks again for taking the time to compiling this!

Comment Number:
91
Written by:
Anonymous
Posted on:
January 28, 2007 at 8:24 pm

Worked just fine for me!

Comment Number:
92
Written by:
jglover
Posted on:
March 3, 2007 at 2:28 pm

This worked great for me. Thanks!

Comment Number:
93
Written by:
kensho:blog » Blog Archiv » Codec-Pack für Quicktime
Posted on:
March 8, 2007 at 9:33 am

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Comment Number:
94
Written by:
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Posted on:
March 9, 2007 at 3:56 am

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Comment Number:
95
Written by:
Don
Posted on:
March 13, 2007 at 10:28 am

Thank you very much for saving not only a bunch of my time, but also my sanity! After searching the Internet for a solution as to why I wasn’t getting any audio for movies which used the ‘ms’ audio codec, I found your component bundle. Bingo! Problem solved.

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96
Written by:
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Posted on:
March 19, 2007 at 12:46 am

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Comment Number:
97
Written by:
RobK
Posted on:
April 8, 2007 at 7:16 pm

Hmm. I installed the codecs by dragging them into /Library/Quicktime/. But I could not playback any WMV videos inside Safari.

I had to install Flip4Mac. I guess Flip4Mac has the Web Browser Plugin needed…

Comment Number:
98
Written by:
RobK
Posted on:
April 8, 2007 at 9:22 pm

It does not look like you have included the XiphQT codecs to allow Ogg and FLAC playback. See http://www.xiph.org/quicktime/

Ogg and FLAC are great audio codecs and are very common on the net since they are open source, free and patent free.

You may want to add them to your codec pack..

Comment Number:
99
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Posted on:
April 20, 2007 at 12:33 pm

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Comment Number:
100
Written by:
quicktime components at bombast.net blog
Posted on:
April 21, 2007 at 10:50 pm

[…] download the osx codec pack (available for either ppc or intel based systems), open the archive up and copy all the files found within to your /Macintosh HD/Library/QuickTime folder. like magic, anything that relies on quicktime for playback (such as front row and itunes) will now be able to decode the video/audio stream properly. […]

Comment Number:
101
Written by:
Word Press » Blog Archive » Apple tv work
Posted on:
May 22, 2007 at 9:48 am

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Comment Number:
102
Written by:
Casey
Posted on:
June 21, 2007 at 2:09 am

Nice simple pack that does well. :) I second the recommendation for XiphQT!! That’s actually very useful to me.

By the way, have you heard of VLC? Not only is it much less stable than any other media player ever, but it’s also slower to the point of not working for any sort of movie with a half-decent resolution on my g4. So just use that! You’ve wasted your time here… ;)

Comment Number:
103
Written by:
Milan
Posted on:
June 21, 2007 at 2:01 pm

thanks dude!

Comment Number:
104
Written by:
RobK
Posted on:
June 30, 2007 at 7:43 am

Perian was just updated to version 1.0. Do you plan to update your codec pack?

I understand that Perian has AC3 support. Do you include all of the Perian codecs in your codec pack? If so, which codec takes precendence– AC3 or AC52?

Comment Number:
105
Written by:
Felipe Sunol
Posted on:
June 30, 2007 at 12:02 pm

Thanks man!

Comment Number:
106
Written by:
vlad.
Posted on:
July 4, 2007 at 12:10 pm

This pack was perfect. Been trying to sort out some audio codec problems so I can use my Turbo.264 to convert Xvid files (uses QT as its core). Thank you.

Comment Number:
107
Written by:
Dan Maloney
Posted on:
July 6, 2007 at 10:09 am

Unfortunately, the author has not updated this pak in a while now. A52Codec is at 1.7.6 not 1.7.2, flip4mac components are updated, perian is at 1.0 not 0.5, etc. Download the pak if you want to have basic support, but you might have to do some searches online to get the latest versions.

Comment Number:
108
Written by:
Anonymous
Posted on:
August 1, 2007 at 8:44 pm

If anybody is still responding to this : I downloaded and installed the codecs, but when i attempt to open .xvid files I get a “The movie could not not be opened the. The file is not a movie” message. It plays fine in VLC though, but I want to use it in Frontrow and Toast. Any thoughts?

Comment Number:
109
Written by:
Anonymous
Posted on:
August 1, 2007 at 9:21 pm

Don’t woory about the last comment. I found that if I change the file extension to .avi it works fine, thanks for the download.

Comment Number:
110
Written by:
GBot
Posted on:
August 12, 2007 at 5:35 pm

Oh god, you VLC loving fuckboys! Yes, videolan is the bomb for any-format simplicity, but if you EVER use frontrow, you want this pack. sheesh.

Comment Number:
111
Written by:
Jaymatter
Posted on:
August 12, 2007 at 10:28 pm

This is perfect and easy to use. Thanks a bunch!

Comment Number:
112
Written by:
DivX and Xvid codec for os X
Posted on:
August 26, 2007 at 11:37 am

[…] In search of an “all-in-one” codec pack for QT, i found this really nice one for intel macs. It’s got codec for DivX, Xvid, AC3, wmv and more. […]

Comment Number:
113
Written by:
Anonymous
Posted on:
August 26, 2007 at 11:49 pm

Nice. You don’t know how needed that FLV codec was. Thanks a lot.

Comment Number:
114
Written by:
Elena
Posted on:
August 27, 2007 at 4:50 pm

I just wanted to say a big thanks for this pack, Shaun. I didn’t even know what a codec was until an hour ago, when I thought it might be an idea to whack some of my avi movies on my pod. After a very frustrating 60min, this pack totally solved all my problems. Cheers!

Comment Number:
115
Written by:
Dcoy9630
Posted on:
August 27, 2007 at 5:02 pm

Goddamnet! Now everything’s FUCKED!
All my players crash!!! I’ve erased everything and reinstalled it. Deleted the codecs and it’s still fucked! (eMac user) Didn’t see it was for fucking Tiger…great….realy…wtf…help me, I’m totaly butraped right now. All I wanted was to watch my movies wìth sound. Now I wont watch anything!

Comment Number:
116
Written by:
Victor
Posted on:
August 28, 2007 at 6:37 am

Thanks a lot man. This is exactly what I needed.
: )

Comment Number:
117
Written by:
Dcoy9630
Posted on:
August 28, 2007 at 12:10 pm

Goddamnet! Answer me! You’ve ruined my Mac!

I’ve completely reinstalled everything but it’s still fucked!

Now I can’t watch anything at all. And no, I’m no friggin noob, I know my Mac inside out. And now it’s fucked because of that package!!! (the ppc one ) Crashes and questionmarks and friggin pop ups nagging about codecs!!!

Comment Number:
118
Written by:
Dcoy9630
Posted on:
August 29, 2007 at 11:38 am

Goddamnet! Answer me! You’ve ruined my Mac!

I’ve completely reinstalled everything but it’s still fucked!

Now I can’t watch anything at all. And no, I’m no friggin noob, I know my Mac inside out. And now it’s fucked because of that package!!! (the ppc one ) Crashes and questionmarks and friggin pop ups nagging about codecs!!!

Comment Number:
119
Written by:
Anonymous
Posted on:
September 1, 2007 at 11:03 am

???? Thx alot for fucking up my Mac, CUNT!

Comment Number:
120
Written by:
Anonymous
Posted on:
September 1, 2007 at 11:04 am

Same here, my Mac keeps crashing :( I’ve tried everything but these “codecs” have totaly messed up my precious Macintosh

Comment Number:
121
Written by:
For Geniuses » Blog Archive » OS X Codecs
Posted on:
September 22, 2007 at 4:31 pm

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Comment Number:
122
Written by:
shwn
Posted on:
September 24, 2007 at 1:43 am

thank you very, very much!

Comment Number:
123
Written by:
Alex
Posted on:
October 19, 2007 at 12:02 pm

Thnks mate..
I LOVE YOU SO MUCH!!!

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124
Written by:
Ingesson
Posted on:
October 29, 2007 at 10:46 am

Nice man, my worries of getting my first mac (as a media center) are over.
To bad people dont understand that some people wanna use Frontrow and that VLC dont enable playback in Frontrow ^^

Comment Number:
125
Written by:
Wil
Posted on:
November 5, 2007 at 8:52 pm

Any possibility that you’ll be updating the CPack for Leopard?

Comment Number:
126
Written by:
Dcoy9630
Posted on:
November 9, 2007 at 6:43 am

Fucking prick!!! My Mac is still totaly fucked because of this ‘codeck pack’ All my media players quit when I open a file!!!! Only VLC works… I can’t even open a simple .avi file anymore with quicktime!!! I seriously gonna fuck you over man!

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127
Written by:
Nick
Posted on:
November 12, 2007 at 3:19 am

Just wondering if you’re going to keep updating these?

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128
Written by:
Shaun
Posted on:
November 28, 2007 at 9:06 pm

Dcoy9630:

I apologize this didn’t work for you and caused you issues. Simply deleting the components from /Library/Quicktime or ~/Library/Quicktime should fix this. If quicktime continues to freeze for you beyond that, the issue you’re having isn’t related to the components.

Wil/Nick:
We’re going to be pushing out an update pretty soon for Leopard compatibility.

Comment Number:
129
Written by:
twenty08
Posted on:
November 29, 2007 at 2:23 am

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Comment Number:
130
Written by:
tito
Posted on:
December 5, 2007 at 9:31 am

I dont understand what happene to others.. but i’m really appreciated Your bundled pack. i have been using VLC but if i can just use Quick Time to use for al my movies its better! once again thank you!
PS: please behave guys..he created bundled pack with intention to help us. if its not work for you..so deleted it.

Comment Number:
131
Written by:
stuntman
Posted on:
December 6, 2007 at 2:11 am

I have a question that I’ve wondered for a long time. I hope someone actually answers it here…

A lot of codecs decode things that other codecs do. For example, Perian does a lot itself… in fact, it does a lot that QuickTime itself does.

If there are multiple codecs that do the same task, which one will be tasked with the encoding? I always hesitate to throw too many codecs in at once for fear of conflict, or getting the lesser codec overriding the better one.

How does that work?

Comment Number:
132
Written by:
FreeStoring
Posted on:
December 10, 2007 at 9:53 am

hay!!
good project :)
senks :)

Comment Number:
133
Written by:
dee
Posted on:
December 15, 2007 at 7:43 pm

Thanks.

Comment Number:
134
Written by:
Anonymous
Posted on:
January 1, 2008 at 5:35 pm

shit works! i luv Mac!

Comment Number:
135
Written by:
Snorting Rooster
Posted on:
January 2, 2008 at 1:46 pm

Needless to say a painless install process. Everything Works fine. As far as the person filling up the comments with harsh language. you might want to figure out how to run your mac before you start modding it. and adding codecs can hardly be considered modding. either way a child could install these codecs so I don’t understand how you could be having issues unless you put it in the system folders. Also it is nice to not have to install other 3rd party apps like VLC and others if I don’t have to. If I wanted more crap on my mac I would just go buy a PC from dell or HP. Obviously you wouldn’t be on this webpage if you didn’t need a codec of some sorts. Once again thanks for the hard work on getting these codecs out definitely helped me out.

Comment Number:
136
Written by:
Cisco
Posted on:
January 5, 2008 at 12:41 am

Thanks Shaun. Great to find something like this. :)

Comment Number:
137
Written by:
Sonny
Posted on:
January 7, 2008 at 6:29 pm

I had downloaded movies but had no sound.I tried several other things but your codec package worked like a charm.
And Quicktime wants to know why I won’t buy Q-Pro from them,if they want my money they need to put a product like yours in Quicktime Pro.
Shaun,all I can say is
Thank You

Comment Number:
138
Written by:
Anonymous
Posted on:
January 11, 2008 at 10:47 am

Type your comment here.

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139
Written by:
Hyungsup Kim
Posted on:
January 28, 2008 at 12:32 pm

Does this suppork mkv files? I have a lot of mkv files that I want to play in frontrow….
Hate using VLC….

Comment Number:
140
Written by:
Floria
Posted on:
February 3, 2008 at 2:00 am

I LOVE YOU. I just spent 5 hours trying to figure out how to get my .avi files to work in FCP, using compressor and converters and it was a huge mess… Who knew all I needed to do was to download these codecs. Thanks so much!!!!!

Comment Number:
141
Written by:
DivX für den Quicktime Player | CocoaLand
Posted on:
February 4, 2008 at 2:08 pm

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Comment Number:
142
Written by:
mitchell holloway
Posted on:
February 6, 2008 at 2:45 pm

Worked immediately for me…a nube mac user…I will pass on to my friend with the same prob.
SWEEET!!

Comment Number:
143
Written by:
John Lockwood
Posted on:
February 12, 2008 at 11:39 am

To those asking if it will play .mkv files (Matroska).

Perian supports playing these files and Perian is included in this pack. However please note that Perian has to load the entire .mkv file before it can start playing it. This is unlike all the other formats which will start playing straight away.

The Perian team are aware of this and hope to change this in the future but even the recent Perian 1.1 still has this limitation

Comment Number:
144
Written by:
CrazyColtrane
Posted on:
February 15, 2008 at 5:52 pm

Sweet, worked great with OSX 10.5.2

Comment Number:
145
Written by:
DivX für den Quicktime Player [UPDATE] | CocoaLand
Posted on:
February 27, 2008 at 1:28 pm

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Comment Number:
146
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Posted on:
February 29, 2008 at 7:46 pm

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Comment Number:
147
Written by:
motee
Posted on:
March 3, 2008 at 2:32 pm

Type your comment here.
OK. So I use 10.3.9.
Can I use this pack and is there a perian for me?
I’m a bit concerned after Dcoy9630’s experiences.
I like Ouicktime Pro because of the editing possibilities.

Comment Number:
148
Written by:
zoe
Posted on:
March 22, 2008 at 12:56 pm

Thanks so much for this download! I was unable to get sound on a certain avi and QT didn’t want to tell me which particular codec I needed.

I had problems with the Perian and aviImporter codecs causing QT to refuse to start properly, however (QT 7, OS X.5 Leopard). Removing them resolved the problem and everything else is great. Thanks again!

Comment Number:
149
Written by:
Cristian
Posted on:
March 26, 2008 at 10:37 am

Sorry for these questions, but I’m a mac beginner…
Should I extract all the folders into /Library/Quicktime? or extract the folders and then copy all the files into /Library/Quicktime? if it’s the case, Should I copy ‘all’ the files including info.plist?

Comment Number:
150
Written by:
Cristian
Posted on:
March 26, 2008 at 1:37 pm

me again. I opened the file in windows, that was the problem. In Mac everything is ok.

Comment Number:
151
Written by:
Turkka
Posted on:
March 30, 2008 at 6:32 pm

Hi.
I´m having trouble playing hdtv-lol.avi -files. Nothing seems to help not in QT or VLC. Downloaded your codec pack hoping, that it would do the trick(only these codecs are used at the moment). But still the same problem. The video “freezes” for periods of time. The audio keeps going on though. I´m running 2,4Ghz MB. Any ideas? Getting little desperate…

Comment Number:
152
Written by:
sara
Posted on:
April 12, 2008 at 10:11 am

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Comment Number:
153
Written by:
Aeons
Posted on:
April 23, 2008 at 4:07 am

Immediately solved problems reading new dvd quality avi’s for my intel based macbook -
much obliged.

Comment Number:
154
Written by:
Ian
Posted on:
April 29, 2008 at 4:17 am

Thank you so much for this. I was close for forking out Eur30 for quicktime pro and was tired of not being able to watch my favorite movies in front row. You’re a legend in my books

Comment Number:
155
Written by:
RC
Posted on:
May 3, 2008 at 10:44 pm

Thanks, man! I am a lazy dude so I use VLC most of the time. Converting videos for my iPod I use MpegStreamclip which utilizes the codecs of quicktime. so these codec would definitely help.