Hi, I am trying to help someone that is a newbie on a G5 Tower 10.5.8 who wants to watch some avi films. I only started with a MBP when I bought my recent one 1.5 years ago. Before that i was on windows and could fix most things but i am unfamiliar with Macs of that age. I was telling him to download VLC assuming he had a newer one until he told me the error message, that his architecture wasnt right, at which point i asked him for his OS number and discovered how old it was. Bearing in mind i am dealing with someone who has very little tech experience, I dont want him to get frustrated which he will easily do so I want to check my facts before passing them on to him. I understand VLC had an issue with 10.5.8 if I read this page and do another quick search on Google. So I may have to tell him to download a compatible VLC and hopefully at worst lead him through he fix on this page to get it working.
Briefly, VLC media player is an effective and feature-rich utility that might prove to be a smart addition to your collection of Mac applications. You should definitely give it a try if you're looking for an alternative to using Mac's default player for watching movies.
If anyone is familiar with this and can offer advice beforehand, I would be grateful. Otherwise, is there another program that plays.avi formats on an earlier Mac, such as 10.5.8, preferably one that doesn't have to download codecs. I want to make this as easy as possible for him. If any other such programs can be used, please let me know what they might be TIA. Click to expand.Correct.
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It's the combo drives in eMacs, G4 towers etc that can't read DL DVD. Another thing about install disks is that there never would have been any grey system specific disks for PowerPC. 10.5 didn't come out until about 18 months after the last PowerPC was made and shipped. 10.5 needs the altivec engine to run on a PowerPC system so that means only G4 and G5. That is why older G4's can run it with a firmware edit because although older slower chips they still have altivec.
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