[MacDV] MPEG won't open

[James Asherman]

On Thursday, January 6, 2005, at 03:30  PM, 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
>

I would say that is an Mpeg1.
Take it out of the computer and try putting it in the DVD player.
Jim