you don't. it isn't. You do like the rest of us and use VLC or mPlayer (which are free) for most of your video viewing. But you can upgrade to QT Pro and send Apple $30 so your QT player will be more spiffy IF and when you actually get to use it for playing a video. On Jul 12, 2005, at 2:14 PM, Gardner Byron wrote: > Can somebody please tell me what I need to do to play avi files on QT > version 7? > > I have gone to Apple's "component" link and downloaded all the "third > party codec components" that are available but nothing works. > > How the heck do you play the avi files in Quicktime which is supposed > to be such a multiple format player? > > Regards, Wayne Clodfelter wayne at troutnc.com