When I first encountered .avi, I used the Doctor avi solution which changed avis to .mov files, that can be read by Quictime fine.
Problem is, the .mov files are twice as big...

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iMac G4 OSX 10.3.9
RAM 256MB
LW 4.10.5 Basic
ADSL anything from 3 to 8Mbps/around 1024kbps

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