Switch from windows, But mpg files won't play in quictime or VLC player

Hmm, none of the players will even open the file to be able to show information about it? Do you happen to know if it is MPEG-2?

Do the other players actually run on your system - and are they able to play anything at all?

Welcome to the discussions, Xoineg.

If these are MPEG-2 files, then you'd need to purchase Apple's MPEG-2 component. However, if VLC can't play them, it makes me wonder what kind of files they are. The website for VideoReDo implies MPEG-2, but if they're making software they assume will run on a Windows machine, they can include a bit of software that would work for Windows and not on the Mac.

The fact that VLC can't play it means it must be waaay out of spec for MPEG-2 IF that's what it is. (Since according to this page http://www.videolan.org/vlc/features.html VLC can play MPEG-2 on ANY platform)

Are you able to open MPlayer? If so, run it, show the playlist window, drag the MPEG to the playlist window. Click the name in the playlist and then click the "i"nfo button. What file, video and audio format are listed?

Hrm, you lost me there...

If you don't have MPlayer OSX, get it here:
http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-dev-CVS-050904.dmg

When the disk image file finishes downloading, double-click on it. You should get a window showing MPlayer OSX and some text files. Drag MPlayer OSX to your hard drive's Applications folder.

Then Open your applications folder and click only once on MPlayer OSX (the program) to select it. From the Finder's File menu on the menu bar at the top of the screen, choose Get Info. Check the checkbox named "Open using Rosetta" and then close that window.

Now to run it...

1] Double-click MPlayer OSX

2] If the playlist window is not already showing then pull down the Window menu on the menu bar at the top of the screen, select "show/hide playlist"

3] Find the mpeg file in Finder (on your Desktop or in a folder) and drag its icon into the MPlayer OSX playlist window.

4] Select the file in the playlist window so that the line with the file's name is highlighted.

5] Click the "i" button for info

6] If the Movie Info window opened, tell us what is in the File, Video and Audio format fields.

Cool! Glad its working. Sometime when you have time you might also check-out VLC and NicePlayer. Links are on this page:
http://insanityflows.net/archive/index.php?title=QuickTime

That's the wierd thing, though. Xoineg said they wouldn't play in VLC.

Perhaps the PPC compiled version of VLC doesn't like Rosetta?

Ahhh, another thing I'll have to keep in mind in these times of Universal Binaries. I'd be curious to know if NicePlayer would fail too.

MBP, get here soon! 🙂

See also:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=394280&tstart=0

QuickTime Player, RealPlayer, VLC, NicePlayer and MPlayer OSX all fail to play audio portion of streamed file on MacBook with QuickTime 7.0.4