Loading of video files takes forever

Prior to version 7.2, video files you to load immediately in quicktime for mac. Now, I wait for over a minute to load a 700 or so meg file. Does anyone have any idea why and now to improve loading?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AudioVideoInterleave
AVI is a 15 year old container that was abandoned by its creator (Microsoft) nearly ten years ago.
Your modern version of QuickTime has a little trouble with those old codecs and Perian works a lot better.

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