Quicktime won't recognize entire DivX movie

I've tried to play a DivX movie that's 2:46:49 long in Quicktime (7.1), but it only recognizes and plays 1:45:46 of it. I open the same movie file in VLC (0.8.5) and it recognizes and plays the entire movie.
Movie format: 720 x 480, MPEG Layer 3, Stereo, 48.000kHz.
What gives?
G4 iMac 1G RAM   Mac OS X (10.4.6)  

And if Streamclip doesn't fix it,
Some programs, like ffmpegX, insert a timecode break at the 1GB mark. QT doesn't like it and will only see the first 1023MB of the movie. When you do a 'Show Movie Properties" in QT, I'll bet it shows something like 1023MB for the Data size.
You can either watch it in VLC or use the fix I use for QT. Because of that bug in ffmpegX, and another one in D-Vision 3, the fix is kinda roundabout.
First, if the extension is .divx, you need to change it to .avi. Download and install ffmpegX and D-Vision 3 from Versiontracker.
Open the .avi in ffmpegX, choose the quick preset "Movie audio to mp3". Go to the Audio tab and set the Audio Codec to "Passthrough", hit Encode.
Open D-Vision, hit the Tools button, select the "re-encoding avi/mpg" option. Then drag the AVI into the "More infos" window. Hit the Copy/Extract button, then Hit the Create task button across from the "Extraction of the video track" line.
Now you have a copy of the Video and Audio tracks. In D-Vision, Hit the "Show all" button, then Hit the "Add audio track" button. Choose the Video only file and the mp3 file, Hit the Create task button.
The resulting .avi should work correctly in QT.

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