My mac wont play this movie file

[ofiraltarasy]

Last night I download a movie on my windows pc i put it on my mac and it was originally a .avi file and when i tried to play it, it said "the movie can not be opened the file is not a movie file" so i changed the file type to .mov just by remaining it and it still wont play anyone know why?

Please do not cross post. Left the other thread open (more responses in that one)
Anandtech Moderator - bsobel

 

[ciproxr]

did u install flip4mac and perian ? also do you have vlc installed ? those are 3 things u should always have installed