What movie formats can Macs Play?

I have a video file on my MBP which is OSX mountain lion and it is .avi.
When i try open it with quicktime or itunes it doesnt play and says it doesnt support.
Are there toehr formats I have to download for it to work or soemthing?
How do i get movies to play?

Get this:
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-macosx.html
Free & plays just about everything. Open source as well.

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