Front Row .mov - audio only

Hi guys, i've been trying to watch some .MOV files in Front Row and it has issues with some only playing audio.
As far as i can deduce, with basically nil knowledge about computing, the common theme with files played in Front Row, playing audio only, is that they have been filmed on iphone with the iPhone upright and hence the format described by QTime Inspector as the video's 'normal size' is 720x1280 but the displayed/played format is 1280x 720.
I've played with all settings in Movie Properties (there were only a small handful of links to discussions with folks experiencing similar issues) to no avail.
It isn't essential that i can see these movies in Front Row, but i would like to be able to.
any help would be ace, thank you.

Hi.
Have you tried loading Perian (www.perian.org)? That will provide you with many additional CODECs which SHOULD solve the problem...

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