Video player or converter for mac

My friend sent me a mpg file over msn and I cannot get it to play in quicktime. I moved it onto a friends pc and it played fine. I looked into it on google and found that apple do a mpeg2 plugin for quicktime but it seems a little pricy just for one video. Is there an alternate that I could use? A plugin for quicktime or a different video player would be fine or if a converter to make it play in quicktime would also be good if possible.
Thanks

Hello,
I'm not a professionnal but here's what I know. What we call an .avi file is just a container. it contains video, sound and sometimes subtitles. VLC, mplayerOS and quicktime usually read .avi files but actually it only depends on the video format or codec. Being a .avi is not sufficient. There are two main codecs that can't be read by VLC on mac : windows media and real media. When a new version of real media player or windowsMP arrives on PC, there are new codes, like rmv9 for Media player 9. As long as they're not avalaible on mac, it may be hard to find the appropriate codecs.
What you can try is to download flip4mac, a little application that allows you to read most windows media video files in quicktime.

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