Movie problems...

[liquidpophybrid]

Okay so I wasn't sure where to post this, cause I don't know what's wrong. My friend sent me a mpg. file of a dragon ball Z episode with fan translation. The thing is that quicktime plays about 5 min. of it then stops, but sometimes if I click near the begining of the movie it starts from almost where it ends if I let it play out. Then goes for about another 5 min. Sometimes though it just starts over. I'm really confused as to what's going on and why I cna't watch this movie my friend has no problem seeing. Any ideas anyone? Is it something messed up with my computer? or with the file? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

[liquidpophybrid]

No one has any clues?

[edesignuk]

Sounds like a dodgy encoding to me, sometimes re-encoding 'bad' mpegs works, give it ago.

[liquidpophybrid]

Okay sounds good I'll give it a try, but... I'm not sure how to do that... Sorry, never had to mess around with this sorta stuff so I am kinda clueless.

[edesignuk]

I don't actually know how to do it on a Mac, possibly with QT Pro (maybe someone with this could help out?). I do on a PC...do you have a PC?

[liquidpophybrid]

nope no PC just a G4 mac only running OSX so my options might be even more limited

[liquidpophybrid]

just had a thought, if you might explain how you d it on a PC Verbose, I could look for specific software on the net for it. Thanks for all the advice so far though :D

[edesignuk]

Well in that case your gonna need someone who knows if/how this can be done in QT Pro....anyone out there that can help?