Problem Importing Footage into AE CS5.5

I'm having problems importanting 'avi' video from my Vado HD into AE CS5.5 - the videos playback just fine in Windows Media Player but when imported into After Effects the clip is greyed out & only the audio track is available. I can't understand the problem as the codec must be installed for the Media Player to play the files & I have checked this by loading the footage into GSpot with this result: Codec H264. Name H.264/MPEG-4 AVC. Installed. Really hope some one can help me with this.

Thank you for all your help Mylenium.
I'd already tried MPEGStreamclip with no joy - loads the footage in much the same as AE does [greyed box] & couldn't figure a successful way to convert it.
I was baffled by the wall of text relating to ffmpeg & couldn't figure out how to install/run it let alone convert any footage.
SUPER©  was the golden nugget - not much trouble to install & find enough reference online to successfully convert my footage - many thanks.

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