[Spindoctorbjj]

Hey guys,

I currently make use of a windows media center (running XMBC Frodo) and I absolutely love it.

Recently my media center crashed and I am thinking of upgrading to a mac mini.

My questions is: can you play .avi files via XBMC running a mac mini?
All my movies/series (majority .avi) are on external hard drives.

Thanks,

[Memphiz]

Avi is only the container. The codec inside the avi is important (e.x. divx, xvid, mpeg2). But i guess xbmc plays it.

[Spindoctorbjj]

Understood...

I just don't want to buy a mac mini and load xbmc and then have to convert all my files to mp4 to view on the mac mini.

thanks for the answer.

[jopie]

XBMC does away with the limited support Apple offers for codecs. It plays a host of codecs otherwise not natively supported by Apple, like mkv, flac, etc. It is one of its main strengths.