This used to be a topic about playing .avi files, but something else came up and I don't want to make a new thread. So, disregard the first 9 posts because I got that question answered.

I hadn't played RS for about a month because of vacation, and when I logged on weird stuff is happening. I was doing my dailies, and when I teleported to Yanille, the bottom half of my screen went completely black, and from the middle up it looked like someone was pulling a black curtain up and down really fast. It covered my whole screen, and I could still move my mouse, but it was behind the black part. If I clicked, on the web browser, RS game, links, anything, nothing would happen. The keyboard also didn't work at all, so I couldn't ctrl alt delete. I held the power button for 10 seconds to shut off the computer, logged back on and everything was fine. The next day, I was doing my dailies again, and the second I teleported to Yanille the same exact thing happened. I had my computer hooked up to my TV, I was playing The Office on iTunes on my TV, and RS on my laptop. The screen thing happened to my TV and my computer. I tried 3 different browsers (safari, firefox, chrome), and it happened to all of them. It is really weird because the only place it happens is in Yanille. I would shut it off, log back on, walk around the different parts of the world, tele to yanille and it would happen.

Idk if it's related, but the tip.it forums won't load in Chrome. The logo and the horizontal blue bar will load, but it just leaves the rest of the page blue and blank. It's only in Chrome, no other browser.

Thanks for your help!

 

Oh, I'm on a mac if that makes a difference.

 

 

 

Old Question: I need to get some movies into iTunes, but they are .avi and won't play at all. I downloaded flip4mac, which is supposed to make quicktime be able to play them, but it still doesn't work. How can I do this?

Probably missing codecs or incompatible codecs

Unlike other file types avi is like a huuuuuugggge blanket extension that can use any combination of like hundreds of different video and sound codecs.

 

Best bet is running it through something like any video converter as that will use more traditional codecs

English please haha :lol:

 

I just need to be able to put it on my iPod

I use a program called Handbrake. Free program, converts video to different types and also different resolutions, which you get to choose.

 

Can be found here http://handbrake.fr/

 

All you do is click the button in the corner for the source, select your file, browse and put it where you want the converted movie to go, set your resolution (or pick on of the presets on the side, there's a bunch there for iPods and other stuff) and hit go. It's not gonna be quick, but it'll work.

Thanks a lot, it worked!

But, it won't sync to my ipod... it says "This movie cannot be copied to this ipod because it cannot be played on this ipod"

I converted it to .mp4, I thought that one could work. It's in itunes, just not on my ipod.

 

One more question, can you do more than one movie at once? I have a lot of episodes I want to do, one at a time will be slow...

I figured out adding them to the queue, so that answers the last question. Now, I just need to get them to sync to my ipod.

Glad you figured it out, and yeah adding to the queue helps, it'll still take a while though.

 

As for having problems syncing. I've had that problem too, and usually the error was that I accidentally clicked the wrong preset. You'll notice there's 3 sections of presets, one on top that has iPod/iPhone/iPod touch and all that. These presets are for the MOST RECENT release of said device. So if you're using an older release of the device, say an iPod Nano 3g, you'll want to go to the bottom section where it says iPod Legacy and select that one.

 

Before doing this, you'd be best to go up to the top bar and click the drop down "Presets" menu and click update. For whatever reason the program doesn't have automatic updates, and though since you just installed it recently you should be fine, it doesn't hurt to be safe.

 

Hopefully this clears up your problem.

Handbrake is the way to go.

I just decided not to put them on my ipod, it would take up too much space. Thanks a lot for the help guys :)

Still don't have this resolved...