Oct 11, 2015 Elmedia Video Player is a free media player for Mac OS. It can play pretty much any file type, be it AVI, MP4, FLV, SWF, WMV, MKV, MP3, M4V etc. Elmedia Video Player is an all-in-one solution, that doesn't call for any additional plugins or codecs.
By Candice Liu to convert video, convert AVI | Last Updated on Dec 3, 2018
'I can't play an AVI movie with my QuickTime player and I get an error message 'Mac OS error – 50' when I try to play it. I have just updated QuickTime to the latest version. Should I get a 2019 new AVI player Mac or convert AVI to QuickTime MP4, MOV, etc?'
In fact, to solve the problem of how to play AVI on Mac OS X, you should figure out what is AVI and why QuickTime won't play AVI videos encoded with DivX, XviD, WMV and other video codecs on Mac at first. As is known to all, AVI is a multimedia container format which contains both audio and video data and QuickTime can only play AVI file with Motion JPEG video. Though users can install Perian to make QuickTime support more AVI files, the older plugins no longer work with the latest Mac operating systems like El Capitan, macOS Sierra or macOS Mojave. Thus, to effortlessly play AVI videos, movies and more on Mac, you should find out the best AVI player for Mac in 2019. In the part below, we list top useful Mac AVI media players for your consideration.