Can't see video in an Avid Meridien Clip with codecs installed.

Question

Hey all, any help would be greatly appreciated. Here's my issue. i have two computers described below, both have many avid codecs on them i'll list those below too. Neithe of them can show a clip that was exported out of an Avid even with the codecs installed. The Clip's details say that it's codec is the Avid Meridien Compressed, Integer (Big Endian), it's dimensions are 720X486 and it says a channel count of 2
When i try to show this clip in FCP or in QT, all I see is a white screen.
Any ideas??? i need to get this into FCP so i can export it to make DVD's really soon.
Thank you again for your help. And my system specs are as follows
System 1
Mac Pro 2.6Ghz, 3 gigs ram, 250gb HD
Mac OSX 10.4.9
FCP 5.1.4
System 2
Mac Book Pro 2.33 Ghz, 2 gigs ram,
Mac OSX 10.4.9
FCP Express HD 3.5.1
Codecs installed on both systems
avidav1xCodec.component
avidavd1Codec.component
avidavdjCodec.component
avidavdnCodec.component
avidavdvCodec.component
avidavpkCodec.component
avidavuiCodec.component
Thanks again for the help.
Mac Pro   Mac OS X (10.4.7)   2.6 Ghz, 1 Gig of Ram, 250gb Hard drive

Answer 1

last I heard, the Avid Meridien codecs were not yet fully supported on the Intel Mac platform ... but workarounds have been reported in the past
the latest codecs Version LE 1.40, are dated March 23, 2007 and may be worth downloading if you have not already done so
that installer puts the following quicktime components into Library/Quicktime:
- AvidAV1xCodec.component: Avid 1:1x codec (Uncompressed MXF 8-bit)
- AvidAVd1Codec. component: Avid DV 100 codec (MXF)
- AvidAVdnCodec. component: Avid DNxHD codec (MXF)
- AvidAVdvCodec. component: Avid DV codec(DV 25 and DV 50, OMF and MXF)
- AvidAVpkCodec. component: Avid Packed codec (Uncompressed MXF 10-bit)
- AvidAVDJCodec.component: Avid Meridien Compressed codec (OMF 8-bit)
- AvidAVUICodec. component: Avid Meridien Uncompressed codec (OMF 8-bit)
in the past it has been reported that you then need to remove the following two components:
AvidAVdvCodec.component
AvidAVpkCodec.component
i've also seen reports that say you just have to pull the the AvidAVUICodec so go figure
if the latest codec pack does not work as is, then try removing those two or just the one ... or a different combination altogeher. probably worth a shot