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Daniel just got a really cool flip camera from his grandparents and has been enjoying it as he is into video and pictures.  Its an Insignia 5.0MP Digital Camcorder with 2.4"

Swivel LCD Screen.

  Problem is – its video is: MPEG4 (DivX) in AVI wrapper.  This would not play on his eMac and isn’t supported in Mac OS X Quicktime. Enter a few smart developers named David Conrad, Alexander Strange, Augie Fackler, Allan Hsu, and Graham Booker. They developed the Perian – Quicktime Plug-in: Perian – The swiss-army knife of QuickTime® components   This is extremely helpful and has made it possible for Quicktime to not only play DivX format but many others.  So if you get this camera go to their website and download the component.  It installed directly into the System Prefrences control panel and gives you the ability to not only play the video in Quicktime but also use it in iMovie as iMovie uses native quicktime components for its file conversion.