New Quicktime doesnt play my AVI movies

My .avi files worked on my old laptop, then I trade in for a new one, try to play my movies, and it doesnt work. Does anyone know any easy way to fix this. I have installed every plug-in i can find, and nothing. The files are fine, I can open them in a conversion program that converts them to other formats, but when i convert them, weird things happen, like theres no sound, or other things. HELP. Why would mac do this?

Open one of the avi files in QT Player and check MovieInfo in the Window menu. Then use Google to search for a codec for that compression. You may need to find a universal codec that will work on both Intel or older PPC Macs.
Or if all you want to do it play them (not transcode to other formats) then you may be able to play them with freeware: VLC

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