Sound but video frozen when playing  .AVI and  .MP4 files

I have several movie AVI movie files that cannot be played properly with Quicktime pro 7.4: the sound plays normally, but the video image remains frozen. These files play perfectly with VLC and Real Player. The identical problem happened with an iTunes movie rental. The problem persists after installing Perian, and re-installing Quicktime.
Any recommendations about how to troubleshoot this?

Here's what my Movie Inspector states.  What do I need to do to get Quick Time to show my video?  Audio is working fine.  Am I out of luck?
If I remember correctly, "m2v1" identifies "muxed" MPEG-2 content which has been imported from a camcorder by any current/recent version of iMovie. Basically, it is an all I-frame version MPEG-2 video. (I.e., all P- and B-frames have been converted to I-frames to make the video QT edit compatible on systems with iMovie '07 thru iMovie '11 installed.)

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