According to Apple QT 6.5 should play these files. <http://www.apple.com/quicktime/products/qt/> <http://www.apple.com/mpeg4/3gpp/> Maybe you need an additional plugin for QuickTime. Launch System Prefs, select QuickTime, select additional updates and see what pops up. John -- One OS to rule them all, One OS to find them. One OS to bring them all and in anti-competitive practices bind them. In the land of M$ where the Shadow lies. > > On my Al-book (10.3.9, QT 652), I receive about one unsolicited 3GPP > movie per week, via Bluetooth. > > They have the Quicktime icon, and are identified as 3GPP movies in > the Quicktime preview (in GetInfo) > > I cannot open them. The message is that this not a file that > Quicktime understands. > > VLC plays them fine. > > Is there anything I need to do/can do/ with QT to get it to > understand these files? > > I presume that 3GPP is ome kind of movie format related to mobnile > phones (as this is surely the source of these movies). > > Any experience or knowledge out there on 3GPP and QT? > > regards, Trevor > > -- Arrive alive, hang up & drive! --- "Is this a bad idea? The folks at Sprint announced it is developing a TV cell phone. It will let you watch TV on your cell phone. They have the perfect name for it:'Nine Dead in Interstate Pileup.'" --Jay Leno