I've never heard of a proprietary mpg format. More likely there's a misconfiguration on the Mac. I'd try a different mpg player; I never use the Quicktime player myself.
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 10:55 PM, Stephen Brownfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A friend sent my wife a link to a .mpg file. We tried to view it. When we > tried to view it in the browser, we got the Quicktime "Q" with a question > mark in the middle of it. When we download and then tried to watch it , we > received the message "this is not a movie file." We are using a Mac running > OS 10.4.11, running the latest version of Quicktime and the latest version > of Flip4Mac. However if we use a Windows machine we are able to view it with > Windows Media Player. > What gives? Why can't I view it on my Mac? Is this a Window's only file? ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
