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Q: I just bought a Macbook and some of the videos that I used to be able to play on my Windows machine no longer work. I thought the Mac was the best for video. Any ideas?
- Jason, via email.

A: The problem you are probably having is that you don't have the proper Quicktime plug-ins to decode the videos. Mac OS X tries to use Quicktime to playback almost all of the video on your system. Since there are so many video formats, Quicktime doesn't support everything out of the box. To make it work, you need an extra plug-in to help it decode the formats it doesn't natively support. Here is what I would recommend. READ MORE »