There are two main reasons to get video to play in Quicktime.
1) To make your own DVDs with iDVD.
2) To convert videos to a format that plays on iPods (.m4v).
I do a lot of 1, and with my best friend giving me an iPod as a wedding present I've started to do some of 2. Previously I would load the video in VLC and have it tell me what codecs were being used. I'd then try and find a version of those codecs for Quicktime. It was ususally hit or miss.
There is a better way. You just install an open-source program called Perian that installs Quicktime support for lots of common video formats. It works perfectly!
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