Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 10th Dec 2007 07:49 UTC
PureMobile sent us in a 16GB iPod Touch for the purposes of this article. This is one of the few times an - essentially - mp3 player comes with a powerful operating system (other examples include the Linux-based Archos and Sandisk offers). Read on for more.
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Member since:2005-06-29
Furthermore, Apple has updated its codecs page here
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/resources/components.html
I've found that I only needed an XVID codec to play most of the files. Perian never worked for me for some reason...
Member since:2006-01-08
Of course, on the desktop OS X, Divx/Xvid was never much of a problem. It is after all the second most widely used general purpose OS, it would be laughable if you couldn't get them to work. But the iPods/iPhones still have very limited video format playback option. Hopefully a solution will emerge for either the hacked devices or with the upcoming official SDK.
If there was ever any doubt that web-apps as the only official SDK is too limiting, just try write a video codec in Javascript 
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2006-04-09
Quoting Square: "Was expecting that I could just download divx and play my collection of avi file I've collected over the years only to find that quick time hates .avi so I used VLC."
Quicktime is just missing the appropriate codecs. Try this, its a real lifesaver:
http://perian.org/
Perian enables QuickTime application support for additional Media Types:
* AVI, FLV, and MKV file formats
* MS-MPEG4 v1 & v2, DivX, 3ivX, H.264, FLV1, FSV1, VP6, H263I, VP3, HuffYUV, FFVHuff, MPEG1 & MPEG2 Video, Fraps, Windows Media Audio v1 & v2, Flash ADPCM, Xiph Vorbis (in Matroska), MPEG Layer II Audio
* AVI support for: AAC, AC3 Audio, H.264, MPEG4, and VBR MP3
* Subtitle support for SSA and SRT
Its also free and opensource.
Hope this helps. :-)