How to play .avi movies in Mavericks<article>
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Reader Jon Nunes has old movies and a new operating system that don’t see eye to eye. He writes:</p>
I have a lot of old .avi movies from the days when I was using a Windows PC. I’d like to play them on my Mac but I can’t seem to when running Mavericks. What should I do?
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You’re correct that QuickTime Player X is incapable of playing .avi movies, but then it never did natively. Instead you’d have to install something like the
Perian QuickTime plugin, which allowed you to play a wide variety of video files, including the many formats gathered under the .avi umbrella. Regrettably the team behind Perian has chosen to halt development. In addition, the foundation underlying QuickTime has changed with OS X Mavericks so that these older plugins no longer work.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2098964/how-to-play-avi-movies-in-mavericks.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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How to play .avi movies in Mavericks
