Can you get an iMac to play .AVI or .WMV video?

I can't find a list of supported codecs on Apple. I have a ton of video files in .AVI and .WMV formats. I don't want to spend days converting to Quicktime to be able to share video clips with a friend who owns a Mac. My camera shoots in .AVI.
I've been thinking about getting a Mac, but would that mean any video I shoot in the future is automatically incompatible with Mac? This would seem to be a common format (the .AVI), anyone know why it's not compatible?
Any ideas on how to work around this problem? Thanks
answered--thanks

Perian or Flip4Mac can handle some but not all files of those types. AVI is a container, not a format, and therefore nothing is assured of opening all AVIs. Some WMV files contain DRM and can't be used in Mac OS X.
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