Avi movie not working

This doesn't concern iMovie directly, as it is more of a general video problem.
I have a really strange (at least to me) situation.   I direct a band and a friend of mine made a video of a recent performance and gave me a disc of it.
Now, the first thing that I noticed is that the disc was not a DVD but a CD-R! I didn't think you could put movies on CD-Rs.   But then I put it in my DVD player, and it did play the video. Only thing was, there was no sound. Video was fine.
I tried it in my computer, and after QT opened up automatically, I received a message saying that the files could not be opened.    I noticed that when the movie thumbnails came up, they had a .avi tag.
I tried running them through MPEG Streamclip, but got a blank screen. I've used this application with great success to clean up rotten files but it didn't work this time. Perhaps I need to adjust its settings?
Anyway, I'm trying to figure out how to make these durn clips work. Thanks for the help!

avi is just a media-container, or 'wrapper' ... like a box of chocolates ,...
install the free MediaHUD, launch it, drag in finder one of those avis onto it and post what it tells ...
I'm assuming, some sort of mpeg1 ... from the morgues of internet video formats, there were stuff like VCD etc... I'm an old man, I can remember! <Mom, were are my pills? No, the pink ones??!>

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