The same issue also happens on many Divx-encoded files carrying the.
In particular, the Indeo® CODEC, popular for video compression on PCs, has not been ported to Mac OS X. As a matter of fact, most of those issues arise with movies that have been compressed using CODECs (Compressor - Decompressor) that are unavailable for QuickTime in Mac OS X. Although QuickTime has officially added support for AVI files, however, there are still many people complain that QuickTime on Mac does not work with AVI files.