Quicktime x broke

Ok, so I've had an issue for some time now, I've resorted to using VLC.......
So quicktime seems to be broke, I've even reinstalled the OS Lion.....  I still have issues playing quicktime movies, mostly .AVI's but apple trailers won't load either when I download them, they will play if I just stream them....  Now when I have the .AVI issue, I can get the little preview to play if you hit the play button on the icon.....  But when I load quicktime and hit the play button, nothing happens....  I can also drag the timeline to any point in the movie and it shows, but when I hit play it won't play.....   I installed the latest perian codec but still nothing seems to work...  this has gone on for months.....  I need quicktime to work, I dunno what else to do.....

Ok, so I've had an issue for some time now, I've resorted to using VLC.......
So quicktime seems to be broke, I've even reinstalled the OS Lion.....  I still have issues playing quicktime movies, mostly .AVI's but apple trailers won't load either when I download them, they will play if I just stream them....  Now when I have the .AVI issue, I can get the little preview to play if you hit the play button on the icon.....  But when I load quicktime and hit the play button, nothing happens....  I can also drag the timeline to any point in the movie and it shows, but when I hit play it won't play.....   I installed the latest perian codec but still nothing seems to work...  this has gone on for months.....  I need quicktime to work, I dunno what else to do.....

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