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thank you for all of your help. the suggestion for VLR player worked. (sarcasm)
...incase anyone else had an issue
 
Perian. Just make sure it's placed in the same directory and has the same name as the video file (except for the ext., of course).
 
thanks for the tip. i've had to infer what people were saying in every movie that had other languages mixed in.
 
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