"I have a lot of old .avi movies from the days when I was using a Windows PC. I’d like to play them on my Mac but I can’t seem to when running Mac Sierra. What should I do?"
Apple Mac is growing more and more popular among global users, and so do their needs – that is why we keep looking for ways to make most of the Mac's rich functionality. One of the issues any Mac user faces sooner or later is how to play AVI on Mac like above, because lots of AVI files work fine with Windows PC yet many will not play properly on the Quicktime application that comes with your Mac. Fortunately there are ways to get your AVI files working with third party software or plugins. So read on to find out the best free AVI player applications to watch AVI files on your Mac (Sierra included)!
➤ Part 1 Top 5 best free AVI player for Mac 2017
➤ Part 2 Comparison chart of top 5 free AVI player for Mac
AVI is a multimedia container format containing both video and audio data in a file container that allows synchronous audio-with-video playback, and it's not a specific type of file and there are various codecs for AVI videos including MPEG-4, MPEG-3, MPEG-1, MPEG-H, MPEG-HD, Xvid, DivX, Cinepak, Indeo, DV, MJPEG, etc. Generally speaking, AVI file won't play on Mac happens under the circumstance that AVI videos encoded with codecs DivX, XviD, MPEG-4, etc except MJPEG, i.e. QuickTime player on Mac only plays AVI files encoded with Motion JPEG. That's why here rounded up the top 5 free AVI player to play AVI on your Mac without hassles.
1. 8K Player
8K Player for Mac is 100% the best free QuickTime Player alternative to help you solve AVI file won't play on Mac with QuickTime problem in the easiest way. With more than 250 formats (including 8K/4K/5K/1080p HD even 3D videos) with no codec packs needed, it can play all AVI files as well as others file like WMV, ASF, 3GP, MPG, MP4, M2T, MOV, MP3, OGG, and all popular HD video formats etc. It offers lots personalized video playing features, like specific segment or single video looping, take screenshots, turn video to GIF, viewing history, video tutorial recording and choose sound tracks, etc. All images are displayed clearly and crisply. It lets you enjoy smooth video playing without any bugs and a artifacts. Every image, every action, still or moving, is delicately displayed. In all, it is absolutely one of the best AVI player Mac that you shouldn’t miss out.
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Note: This free standalone AVI player also enables you to watch all video files on Windows PC. If needed, please turn to its AVI player for Windows version (XP/7/8/10 included)
Step 1. Download and Launch this AVI 8K Player on Mac.
Step 2. Import AVI Movie to 8K player Mac
Open this free AVI player, you can see a pretty compress interface. Drag AVI or any format video directly from your movie folder to the app.
Or use "Open With" by two-finger hitting > "Other..." >"8K Player" (For opening file at first time, please active it as "Always open with" media player
Or Click "Open file" to get AVI file loading to 8K Player without any delay;
Tip: Lots of user-friendly tools you can direct it as below. Look at the tool bar on the top menu, you can do some personalized setting with this professional AVI player on Mac.
VLC Media Player for Mac is a popular free AVI player, it supports to play almost all kinds of media in multiple formats right on your Mac. And it does offer a few nice advanced features that more experienced users will enjoy. For instance, there are several basic editing tools that allow you to adjust various file properties to enhance your viewing experience. With this app in place, you can just download and watch what you want, without having to worry about formats, compatibility, and conversions.
But it comes with basic interface, less awesome video visual effect and less intuitive. To install VLC on Mac for playing Blu-ray, it's too complicated to handle for a regular user. Compared with the best Mac media player 8K Player, the quality of AVI playback with VLC player certainly needs an improvement, and the app itself consumes quite a bit of CPU memory.
MPlayerX is a less known AVI player Mac, similar in flexibility to VLC Media Player, MPlayerX can play almost any format of file or stream, including MPEG, VOB, AVI, ASF, WMA, WMV, VIVO, QT, MOV, MP4, OGG and many more. The great thing about MPlayerX is that, like VLC Media Player, it plays absolutely everything you throw at it. Many users find that if they can’t play something on the former then MPlayerX can and vice versa. There’s very little to fault it in that respect although it doesn’t feature integrated subtitled searching like Lunettes and doesn’t have channel integration like VLCPlayer.
As being an older app, it might crash occasionally when running on the latest Mac Sierra 10.12, Yosemite and El Capitan 10.11.
Cisdem VideoPlayer for Mac is a free AVI video and audio player that supports almost any media files (Including 5K and Full HD 1080P video) with no additional codecs and plugins needed. It delivers a better HD video playing experience without buffering or crashes. You can load subtitle files automatically and add subtitle files easily. Standing out for its impressive list of supported formats, it supports more than 50 formats and other video playback features of de-interlacing, taking snapshots etc.
QuickTime is popular multimedia technology with a built-in media player, lets you play and view Internet video, HD movie trailers, and personal media in a wide range of file formats. But QuickTime Player X is incapable of playing AVI movies, but then it never did natively. Instead you’d have to install something like the Perian QuickTime plugin, which allowed you to play a wide variety of video files, including the many formats gathered under the AVI umbrella.
Regrettably the team behind Perian has chosen to halt development, like the latest version 1.2.3 of Perian is not compatible with Mac OS X Mavericks (10.9), Mountain Lion (10.8) and Lion (10.7). If you still rely on QuickTime to play AVI, here advise you to convert AVI to other format that QuickTime supported, like .mov, .mp4, .m4v, MPEG-1, 3GPP, 3GPP2, AVCHD, DV, etc. by Dimo Video Converter Ultimate.
If you want more information to know which free AVI player for Mac OS X is the best AVI player for Mac, the below comparison chart would be helpful as per the main features comparison of these free AVI video player for Mac OS X in Details.
| 8K Player | VLC Media Player | MPlayerX | Cisdem Player | QuickTime | ||||||
| Play like all video/audio like AVI, MKV, WMV, ASF, 3GP, MPG, MP4, M2T, MOV, MP3, OGG, etc. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | MOV, MP4, M4V, MPEG-1, 3GPP, 3GPP2, AVCHD, DV, etc. | |||||
| Play 4K videos free | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||
| Play 3D videos file free | ✓ | |||||||||
| Play 1080P videos free | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||
| Play homemade DVD disc (VIDEO_TS Folder, ISO image file included) | ✓(Paid feature $35.95) | ✓(codec pack/plug-in needed) | ||||||||
| Play homemade Blu-ray files (BDMV Folder, ISO image file included) | ✓(Paid feature $35.95) | ✓(codec pack/plug-in needed) | ||||||||
| Commercial protected Blu-ray disc | ✓(Paid feature $35.95) | |||||||||
| Commercial protected DVD disc | ✓(Paid feature $35.95) | |||||||||
| Watching history | ✓ | |||||||||
| Looping by single video or specific segment | ✓ | |||||||||
| Add bookmark to record video inspiration | ✓ | |||||||||
| Make GIF directly from video | ✓ | |||||||||
| Screen recorder to record video tutorials | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||||
| Select subtitles and audio tracks | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||
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| Windows | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||
| Mac | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||
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Easiest solution to fix AVI won't play on Mac by Dimo Video Converter Ultimate for MacTo solve these questions, there is an efficient way to help you play any AVI videos on Mac smoothly. All you need is a Dimo Video Converter Ultimate for Mac which allows you to convert AVI to MP4, M4V, MOV, etc. the natively by QuickTime on Mac. And you don't need to worry about the video quality because it can preserve the original quality after conversion. Besides that, you can also use Dimo Video Converter Ultimate to play, download and stream AVI, MP4, MKV, FLV, WMV, 4K, 1080p, MP3, AAC, etc files to big screen TV.
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