Trouble playing .mov files in windows

I used iMovie 08 on a Mac to import some videos from a Sony AVCHD camera. It created a .mov file for each clip (veery heavy ones, though short). They can be seen perfectly on a Mac, but in my PC Quicktime tells me i need to download some codec, and I dont know which one. I have lots of codecs though. What do i need to play the files in Windows?
Thanks

it never gave me any options. when importing the video from the camera i cant choose which codec to use. anyway, i no longer have access to the mac i used. Im stuck with the files in my pc and cant read them.

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