Quicktime can't play avi or mpg files!?!?!

Hello all,
quicktime is telling me it cannot open files with avi and mpg. I tried to open a movie clip i was downloading and it gave me that message. When I try to do the same in windows partition I can but with windows media player, haven't tried quicktime for windows....what gives??

Howdy, there are at least two Quicktime add ons that most Mac users download to watch videos on the web. One is flip4mac and the other is Perian.org. Check those out. If that doesn't fix it post back.

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