Can't play Avi

I got a group of movies that came off a camera, put onto a windows, and given to me over a disk. Now they are in Avi format and i cant get any visual, all I'm getting is a White Screen. Please Help Me if u Can. Thanx

When you're in QuickTime Player and looking at the white screen, Get Info, and see what video codec is being used. That will tell you which QuickTime component you need to install in order to see the video. You might start by installing the components at perian.org:
http://www.perian.org/

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