[MacDV] MPEG won't open- MacDV Digest, Vol 6, Issue 6

Ted Langdell ted at tedlangdell.com
Thu Jan 6 21:08:15 PST 2005


Ted Langdell
Ted Langdell Creative Broadcast Services
Marysville, CA

Is there a suffix (.something) at the end of the file name?  Maybe the  
lack of one or an incorrect one is a problem.

Ted.


On Jan 6, 2005, at 12:52 PM,  
macdv-request at listserver.themacintoshguy.com wrote:

> Message: 9
> Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 12:30:00 -0800 (PST)
> From: aamolsch at shentel.net
> Subject: [MacDV] MPEG won't open
> To: macdv at listserver.themacintoshguy.com
> Message-ID:
> 	 
> <20050106123001.12881.h005.c000.wm at mail.wrra.intranets.com.criticalpath 
> .net>
> 	
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
>
> 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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