Adam,
It sounds like whatever you're trying to watch is most likely an MPEG2
file (as you are probably aware there are multiple types of files with
a .mpg extension; such as MPEG-1(VCD), MPEG -2(DVD is based on this)
and MPEG 4 ) . Apple in its infinite wisdom decided that MPEG2 playback
in Quicktime should not be free, so a plug in which you pay for is
required if you wish to play MPEG2 files in quicktime:
<http://www.apple.com/quicktime/products/mpeg2playback/>
However, should you not want to pay for this feature, you can use other
players to play them, such as the excellent VideoLanClient (VLC) :
<http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/5758>
About the only thing VLC won't play is windows media video 3 files
(WMV3) for which evil microsoft *still* has not supplied a player for
macintosh (Windows Media Player 9 for mac, recently released, STILL
won't play these files!)
Give this a try. Email again if it still doesn't play.
Dave
On 21/12/2003, at 5:05 AM, WAMUG Mailing List wrote:
From: "Adam Hewitt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: mpeg in quicktime
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 22:37:38 +0800
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi All,
I have a movie that has been encoded in Intervideo audio and video
(according to Windows Media Player) and is apparently an mpg. I can
play
the video under windows no problems, but I keep getting an error under
Quicktime that says "Quicktime can not play this video because it is in
a format that Quicktime does not understand" or something similar. I
can
watch all manner of other Divx or Xvid movies in Quicktime, but not
this
one.
Anyone have an idea as to which codec I might need or why it isn't
working?
Cheers,
Adam.
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