AVI files not working in iChat theatre

My boyfriend and I often watch videos together on iChat. We both have the iMacs except I have the 3.06 GHz and he has the one generation down from mine. When he plays avi files in iChat theatre, I can watch the movie as well. But when I click and drag an avi file into iChat theatre, a new window pops up, but it stays blank even though the timer keeps running, I tried moving down further into the video, but still, nothing shows. What's wrong with my iChat?

How are you playing AVI files normally ?
Is he using Flip4Mac of have a Quicktime Plug-in add on to play DivX files ?
9:40 PM Wednesday; December 3, 2008

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