Audio, no video with .avi file

We have cameras on our buses in which we can save the video to a PC as an .avi video file. (hardware only works on a PC). So now I have a .avi file that we would like to view on our Macs. No matter what program I try, the movie has sound, but no video.
+According to MediaInfoMac,+
+Video Codecs Used: WaveCodec+
+Audio Codecs Used: PCM+
+File Format: AVI+
+Encoded with: MEncoder 1.0pre5-3.3.5+
+Encoding Library: MPlayer+
+another program mentioned ADV1+
I have
* tried both Leopard and Snow Leopard machines
* Quicktime Pro
* Perian (made sure the DiVx was unistalled, repaired permission, restarted etc)
* tried the latest VLN
I don't mind purchasing a program, but I want to make sure it will work. This is an important program to us and we need it to work.
Has anyone run across this type of file?

There is no Mac codec for that video format. Use MPEG Streamclip to convert it to MPEG-4 on the PC.
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