I recently bought an iMac and as I use it I love it more and more. I learn a lot of new stuff that I also wanne share with you. So I will start a new Category that is called MACHELP. Get ready for the first tip.

I have a lot of home videos I filmed with my Digital Hi8 camcorder and after editing I encoded most videos in xVid. So I wanted to watch those videos on my new iMac. Apparently there is no out of the box playing that kind of videos on a Mac, so I had to search for something I also knew from the PC-World. I needed a codec pack for video and audio to playback.

And I didn’t had to search long, I found one Codec Pack that fits my needs on the official Apple site. It is called Perian, it’s free and it works quite well.

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/video/perian_christopherforsythe.html

So if you have any probelms with video or audio playback try Perian. If you know another one, feel free to post a comment.