
Note 2: The developer has discontinued the support and update of Perian software. If your Mac don’t meet the system requirements, try the other methods to watch AVI files, given in this post.

#Media player for mac that supports avi mac os x#
Note 1: Perian doesn't work on Mac OS X Mavericks, Yosemite, Mac 10.11 EI Capitan and Mac OS X Mountain Lion. The latest version, Perian 1.2.3 supports macOS X 10.4.7 and above. Perian is only available for QuickTime 7.6.6. It is easy to install and would open AVI files on Mac’s QuickTime automatically. Use Perian, an open source QuickTime plugin to play AVI files on Mac. Enable AVI support using a plugin or add-on software

If the same are not used by the media player it won’t play the file. When you open any file in a media player, it examines both the audio and video codecs within the video file. Here we bring various methods you can use to open AVI files on Mac systems. If you want to play any video file on Mac, the macOS should be able to recognize the file type and its codecs. The limitation is annoying as AVI is a popularly used video format. Mac computers cannot play AVI videos in its native QuickTime media player.

The AVI or Audio Video Interleave by Microsoft is a container format that has.
