[...] Bart answered my needs with a program called Perian from perian.org. Perian enables QuickTimeÂ® application support for additional media types including: AVI and FLV, Divx, Flash screen Video, and a whole host of others. I downloaded and installed Perian, launched Quicktime and asked it to open an AVI file, and it worked perfectly! Bart does a more in depth description of Perian, so I don’t want to snake his thunder on his blog (or is it steal his thunder and snake his idea?) go check it out at bartbusschots.ie/blog …