How can i play an avi movie on my mac using 10.10.3

I'm using Macbook Pro Version 10.10.3
I'm trying to play an .AVI movie I downloaded and can't get it to open. I saw a solution online named VLC, but am not sure if I should trust it. The other question is if I did use it would it interfere with normal QuickTime usage?

tkep10 wrote:
I'm using Macbook Pro Version 10.10.3
I saw a solution online named VLC, but am not sure if I should trust it.
Why?
tkep10 wrote:
The other question is if I did use it would it interfere with normal QuickTime usage?
No, it won't.
An .avi doesn't tell the full story. .avi, .mpg, .wav, .mp3, ...etc. are just wrappers. The content is encoded with a Codec. The codec that encodes the media is the part that matters wrt whether it will play natively.
VLC will decode a multitude of codecs.

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