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Posted 21 May 2007 - 06:23 PM

I downloaded a tv show via Bits on wheels and it completed fine. However when i try to open it with quicktime it says 'Error opening movie' and when i try with VLC it says 'no suitable access module for `/Users/user/Desktop/Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares- 3 new episodes/RKN - Oscars.avi'
any help would be appreciated.
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Posted 21 May 2007 - 09:14 PM

Try downloading/installing Perian, the Swiss Army knife of QuickTime plugins.
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Posted 22 May 2007 - 05:31 PM

Hmm... Still no luck :-(
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Posted 23 May 2007 - 08:14 AM

Try Flip4Mac and if that doesn't help then you may have to get (gulp) Windose Media Player. Flip lets QT play most of the Windows formatted media I've downloaded.
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Posted 23 May 2007 - 09:03 AM

Try the freebie iSquint:
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If that doesn't do it, get its big brother VisualHub.
It's free to try and $23 if you like it.
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Posted 23 May 2007 - 09:29 AM

AVI movies are often DivX. Do you have the DivX 6 Decoder? You can get it here.

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Posted 23 May 2007 - 05:28 PM

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AVI movies are often DivX. Do you have the DivX 6 Decoder? You can get it here.

Perian should take care of the DivX Decoder issue.
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