Registered: 23/09/2000
Posts: 498
Loc: Virginia, USA
Divx and xvid have QuickTime plug-ins, which means you can use them in lots of OS X apps. Or, as others have said, there is VLC. Though if you drink the Apple kool-aid you won't like open source apps that don't behave like native OS X apps. (Full disclosure: I've been successfully brain washed by Steve Jobs in the past 6 months.)
Those are the codecs. Believe it or not, I actually like the new Real Player for OS X. I'm not sure if it uses QT plug-ins or it's own codecs. But it played the things I've tried so far.
Here's a new player that I haven't tried yet that looks promising. It works with QT plug-ins. QT itself is a pretty weak media player. But like Windows Media codecs there are other front ends that have access to the video playback engine.
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