New Macbook pro (top of range) DIVX playback is terrible??

Hi all
Just brought my 1st ever Mac and went for the top end MacBook Pro.
I have been trying to playback my DIVX files and so far have not got anything to play.
I have tried installing both DIVX player and Perian but both have the same effect.
I get pixilated video and the audio pops and cracks to the point you cannot even plug headphones in.
I installed VideoSpec which says that everything I need is installed so have no idea why this MacBook that plays the 1080 videos from my video camera without any issue cannot playback the bog standard divx videos that my crappy netbook plays without any problems.
If I install VLC I get some error about the audio being wrong and it asks if I want to repair it but this also does nothing. I use VLC on my PC which does not complain playing the same files.
Also I have tried a few MKV files which also are not playing back as expected.
Any help would be most welcomed as if I cannot get this lovely Mac to do what to me is the most simple of tasks I will be taking it back.
Thanks
Colin

Also I have tried a few MKV files which also are not playing back as expected
It could be a 'difficult' form of Matroska file. FYI Matroska is just a container like MOV or AVI, and some mkv have the video encoded with Real Video Codec (RV9 RV10). Perian+QT can't decode this, but VLC will play .mkv files just fine on OS X, as long as they don't use H.264!
It's a bit of a lottery until Matroska decide to support the Apple platform. I have found this:
http://mkv4mac.free.fr/index.php?lang=en&p=lec
which may help.
But there may be another workaround: 1. Get Info the mkv file
2. Change to extension to wmv. Save as wmv and that could work better.
Or this link may be helpful:
http://www.squidoo.com/mkv-converter-mac
Recently, a poster (ZachP14) suggested this:
"There's a program called Plex that runs .mkv files awesome on my 2.0 ghz macbook."
http://www.plexapp.com/
Maybe worth a try?

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