On 05/04/2010, at 5:03 PM, Peter Miller wrote:

> Sorry about the off-topic post, but a member of my household has
> Stockholm Syndrome and chooses to use M$ products.  It transpires that
> XP doesn't include an MPEG-2 decoder as standard.  Yes, I know, broken
> by design.
> 
> Can anyone tell me a safe and malware-free URL to download a free
> decoder?


Hi Peter,

I believe VLC can decode MPEG2 out of the box and is free (as in beer and 
speech - GPL licensed!).  It can be downloaded from your local mirror (see 
second URL below).
List of supported video formats
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/features.php?cat=video

Download from here
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-windows.html

Cheers,

James

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