[MacDV] MPEG won't open

[Brian Olesky]

There are two players I use that can often play videos that other players
won't. They are MPlayerOSX and VLC Media Player. Both are free downloads and
you can probably find them using Google.

Brian 

On 1/6/05 2:30 PM, "aamolsch at shentel.net" <aamolsch at shentel.net> wrote:

> The wife has a home movie of her newest grandchild, taken by
> her son, copied to a CD-ROM and mailed to her.
> 
> Get info says it is an "MPEG Movie", 43.8 MB. Nothing I have
> tried will open it: not QuickTime Player (I have QT Pro),
> not Windows Media Player (her son has a Wintel), not
> RealPlayer 10, not GraphicConverter (I was getting desperate
> by this time).
> 
> I'm afraid that the video of the newborn was shot on one of
> those DVD cameras, and that may be the problem.
> 
> But if anyone has the solution, I'd certainly welcome it.
> You can be sure that I would be a hero.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Art
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