Quick time avi issue

i downloaded some movies off of lime wire in avi format and they wont play in quicktime. it opens in quiktime screen, but just stays white the entire time its playing. any way to get it to open in windows media player? sorry im new to macs.

You probably don't have the codec necessary to view the video. Divx would be my guess, but there are others out there, too. Open your file in Quicktime and press command-I. Next to format, it should tell you the kind of compression.
I can't remember at the moment where you can get the free divx plugin, but you could also just download VLC, if all you want to do is watch.

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