Can't play .avi file by QuickTime Pro

I am a paid QuickTime Pro user. However, I can't play some .avi files. No images, no sound. It just pop up a window shows,
" Additional software is required for QuickTime to playback this media. It may be available from the QuickTime Components page. Click Continue to check for the software."
Then it leads me to the following page,
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/resources/components.html?os=OSX&ctype=696d6463&c subtype=58564944
If any of you confront this problem? And how did you resolve it?
Thanks a lot
Julia

You need Perian from http://perian.org/
You should read this support page http://perian.org/#support in case you need to delete older codecs.

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