QuickTime Question

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I suppose I have used QuickTIme occasionally. You know, you click on a video and it plays, you never really think about it.

So I have a new dashboard camera. If you wait a few moments, you can see my morning commute here:


As you can see, the camera records in AVI format and works pretty well for a $20 POS. I can even play the files on my office Windows machine. The files are OK.

But when I bring them to my Mac at home, I have an odd problem. Double click on icon and the file plays in the thumbnail, not full size. If I click some more I get a full-sized black box with the audio playing, but no picture. I presume I am doing something wrong. Anyone want to set me right on this?
 
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Hi,

Do not double click the file try just right clicking and from the drop down menu choose to play with quicktime, what is the result?
 

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Because it is in AVI format, I suggest downloading VLC and assigning AVI to open and play with it.

Let us know if that helps,

C
 
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I get VLC from the App store? Type slowly as I am an Old Person.


(Nothing called VLC in the App Store, try Version Tracker?)
 
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My goodness that downloaded quickly! It must be a very small program. In any case, that seems to work, although all the videos are upside down. Given the nature of the camera, that might be a problem with the file. Any thoughts?

In any case, thank you very much.
 
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Hi,


I find this really odd as all my camera vids are AVI format and play in quicktime perfectly. Second screen shot is of quicktime opening a AVI vid and last one is the AVI file playing. So not sure why the posters file would not play correctly ?
 

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