Playing incompatible H.264

I got a movie file that is containing H.264 for picture and MP3 for sound stream. As the subject mentions, this movie file couldn't be played on QuickTime 7.2 for both Mac and Windows. When QT loads this movie file, it will ask me to get some right codecs and jumps to codec introduction(?) page. However, VLC could play this movie fine.
I guess the format is incompatible with QT, if so, are there any ways to convert into a right format? I heard that H.264 encoding takes very long time, so I do not want to re-encode this movie file, if I could.
Moive spec: H.264(1024x576, 29.97fps), MP3(160kbps, 48KHz) in AVI container
Message was edited by: Potch

Thank you for telling me a solution.
But I couldn't make viewable .mov file from this software. Since the audio stream was the MP3, QT could play a sound, but a picture. QT still asked me to get a right codec.
So I did a little more research after I tried this software and now, I could make a playable .mp4 movie file w/o re-encoding by using MP4Box(I did use windows version...).
Anyways thank you for your help!

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