Quick Time (Mountain Lion) won't play .AVI files.

Since all of you probably already know the information I typed in the headtitle, I have a question. So obviously .avi files can not be played on this version of Quick Time that comes with Mountain Lion, but, would buying a Quick Time Pro solve my problem? I'm ready to pay 30$ for the program, but first I'd like to know would it enable me to play .avi and all sorts of other video files? Ofcourse I read it does play all sorts of files including .avi, but I'd like to hear it from somebody who actually uses Quick Time Pro on Mountain Lion. Thanks for your help in advance!
Dino Sertovic
P.S. I already have tried VLC, I use it but that's not the solution I'm asking for. Nor that, nor other programs such as MplayerX. I'm interested only in Quick Time while it never breaks, deinterlaces my footy nice and is very simple and user friendly.

You don't need to buy Quick Time Pro. Quick Time Pro is just a paid add-on to add features to QuickTime Player 7. You don't need the Pro features for just playing. The player in your Applications folder is Quick Time X. QuickTime Player 7 should be in your Utilities folder (which is inside yoir Aplicatioins folder). If it's not there, download it from:
<http://support.apple.com/kb/DL923>
QuickTime Player 7 will play .AVI files if you install Perian
<http://perian.org>
then replace its A52 codec component
<http://www.techisky.com/answers/does-perian-support-ac3-on-mountain-lion-10-8-ho w-to-fix.html#more-120>

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