One weird thing I noticed once was that while QT wouldn't play an AVI file I had, the preview in column view would! Rick > I've got this AVI that QuickTime will not open. It gives that standard > AVI message that it has a "compressor that quicktime does not > understand". Does anyone know of a program that will convert it? I > tried cleaner but it came out blank. I'm also trying to show up the PC > user that created it who told me that the reason I can't open the file > is that "Macs suck". > > -Sean