If you ever try to play certain movies on your Mac without having the correct driver installed, you are going to get nothing more than a black screen. No fear! Perian is here to save you! Just download and install this little applet which adds itself to your System Preferences menu, and you can watch all those movies you weren’t previously able to view.
If that alone doesn’t do it for you, it’s possible you need to install the DivX codec and maybe even the XviD codec. If anyone knows of other drivers that help play media on the Mac, please drop a link in the comments!
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I use a program called VLC Media Player to watch movies on my Macs. It is by far the best video player out there. They also have windows, linux and other versions. Here is a quick description of what it plays from their website:
It has so many features I couldn’t even tell you all of them. Give it a try and let me know how it works for you.
John, What’s going on with Woopra? I was one of the original beta tester and quickly fell in love with it but now I can’t get back in after a short technical difficulty on my end. It’s apparently irking some people too… http://www.lastpodcast.net/2008/03/30/woopra-a-lesson-in-how-not-to-launch-a-new-service/ let me know if i can help get thing ironed out.
Pete,
This is not really the post to have a Woopra discussion on, so please email me at john at woopra dot com. But I just checked your site and I don’t see the Woopra code installed. I also logged in as you and it works perfectly (except that the site is not sending any data). So let me know exactly what you are experiencing and we’ll get you going again.
Finally, that link you posted was literally from the weekend we launched, like 16 months ago. It’s not current, and was a very rare example. They were upset only because we couldn’t service all the demand, not because of technical problems.
John P.