Feb 22

Divx

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Reader Blaine Lewis writes:

This may look pretty familiar as I have adapted it from the Matroska Video File “plugin”. After having seen that one I figured you could do it for any file format (at least for Quicktime). So here is one for DIVX.

1. First you need DivX/Perian for .divx support in Quicktime :
http://perian.org/, http://www.divx.com

2. Then you need to add a Uniform Type Identifier in Quicktime Player :
– Edit QuickTime Player.appÂ’s /Contents/info.plist
– Add the following code just before the last 2 tags
<key>UTTypeConformsTo</key>
<array>
<string>public.movie</string>
</array>
<key>UTTypeDescription</key>
<string>DivX Video File</string>
<key>UTTypeIconName</key>
<string>generic</string>
<key>UTTypeIdentifier</key>
<string>com.apple.quicktime.divx</string>
<key>UTTypeReferenceURL</key>
<string>http://www.divx.com/</string>
<key>UTTypeTagSpecification</key>
<dict>
<key>public.filename-extension</key>
<array>
<string>divx</string>
</array>
</dict>
</dict>
</array>

3. In Terminal.app
touch /Applications/QuickTime\ Player.app

5 Responses to “Divx”

  1. elean Says:
    March 8th, 2009 at 1:16 pm

    I think, ether the first 3 lines are missing:
    UTExportedTypeDeclarations

    or the last 2 close Tags are to much…

  2. elean Says:
    March 8th, 2009 at 1:18 pm

    Code gone 🙁 Next try:

    UTExportedTypeDeclarations

  3. elean Says:
    March 8th, 2009 at 1:19 pm

    Still not, but now:

    (key)UTExportedTypeDeclarations(/key)
    (array)
    (dict)

  4. BluR Says:
    October 15th, 2009 at 3:58 pm

    OK here it is working with the MKV file support included:
    (Past the following code between the last “” & “” tags)

    UTExportedTypeDeclarations

    UTTypeConformsTo

    public.movie

    UTTypeDescription
    Matroska Video File
    UTTypeIconName
    generic
    UTTypeIdentifier
    com.apple.quicktime.mkv
    UTTypeReferenceURL
    http://www.matroska.org/
    UTTypeTagSpecification

    public.filename-extension

    mkv

    UTTypeConformsTo

    public.movie

    UTTypeDescription
    DivX Video File
    UTTypeIconName
    generic
    UTTypeIdentifier
    com.apple.quicktime.divx
    UTTypeReferenceURL
    http://www.divx.com/
    UTTypeTagSpecification

    public.filename-extension

    divx

  5. BluR Says:
    October 15th, 2009 at 4:01 pm

    Ok that really screwed up!!!…lol. well I got it working, email me if you want the clipping since it didn’t post here properly. z1ross at gmail dot com