HT3775 Trouble opening .avi in QuickTime.

I downloaded DivX and Flip4Mac, but still get popup "required codec is not available" HELP?!?

Thanks for your quick advice. I just checked out the website and it says: Perian is no longer under development and does not work with QuickTime 10 or above. However, it still works with QuickTime 7.6.6.
I am running OS X and using QuickTime Player 10.2. Any additional advise? i greatly appreciate your help.

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