How do you import a movie into itunes

I have a 4Gb avi film on my desktop and I would like to import it into Itunes. I go to "add to library" but unfotunately it does not seem to do it. Any answers?

iTunes doesn't play AVI (AVI is really an outdated Windows format). If you are lucky and the codecs used are ones supported by iTunes you can try re-wrapping it as .mp4 with MpegStreamclip, but you'll have to be very lucky since AVI can contain all kinds of unsupported codecs.
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=522491 - some tricks to get iTunes to play AVI format files.

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