HT3775 will my mac play .avi file formats?

Hi
I have a new mac and not sure on opening this format. The help section lists AVI and the file format is .avi bit it wont open.
Any ideas?
A

In addition to the VLC player that mende1 mentions, you can use a tool like Handbrake to transcode such formats to an MP4 that will play in quicktime. These can be found here:
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html
http://handbrake.fr

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