Also can't play movies in iPhoto

I'm using iPhoto 9.1.5 & have Quicktime Player 10, & still on Snow leopard.  When the movie was downloaded from my camera it showed message - "unreadable file, file could not be imported.  The file is in an unrecognised format".  Should I be able to view this & is so what do I need - another version of Quicktime maybe?  It was just a movie clip from an ordinary digital camera.
Thanks for any help.
Janet

It was just a movie clip from an ordinary digital camera.
Problem is: there's no such thing. Movie formats can carry movies created with any of hundreds of Codecs - so one .avi is not the same as another .avi.
Have you installed Perian?
This adds extra codecs to QuickTime which will allow it to work with most avis. If the material is HAD and shot as AVCHD then you'll need to use iMovie for that.
Regards
TD

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