Can Front Row be set to use VLC?

I'd like to be able to play my .avi movies using front row, but it seems to default to using Quick Time, which doesn't play all of my movies. VLC works wonderfully, is there a way to make Front Row use VLC?
Any help with this is appreciated, thanks. =)

you can download divx for free, then you can play your avi files with quicktime, therefor allowing you to play them in frontrow... the divx codec is free... works well too..
here is where you can download it..
http://www.divx.com/

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