How do i get my iMac quick time player to play video formats such as avi, etc?

to whom it may concern,
how do i get my quicktime player on my imac to play avi, etc video formats? i downloaded an avi video, but i got the message, quick time does not support this format.

VLC media player - http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ - general media player that plays just about anything.
Perian codecs for Quicktime - http://www.perian.org - plugins to add functionality to Quicktime for playing additional audio and video formats
Quicktime audio problems, Perian, VLC - http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=9013669 - read note about uninstalling prior DIVX support before installing Perian.

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