Hi It's probably because of an encoding glitch that Quicktime Player interprets as an end of file (Quicktime is not very fault tolerant). VLC and Mplayer OS X don't have this problem because they interpret the datastream directly. They do skip a little at the point where Quicktime player stops Rgds Khoo on 25/7/04 6:06 pm, Brian Olesky at brian4 at sbcglobal.net wrote: > > But I have my own QuickTime question, which came up a few weeks ago in > another thread, but there never was an answer. How come some large files, > when played back in QuickTime, only play back a small portion. But when I > open those files in MPlayer OSX 2 I get the entire file? > > Brian > >