Can anyone explain why, recently quicktime has been not working for some formats now its mpg, can anyone explain...???
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Qiucktime wont play mpg?
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It is possible that the mpg was encoded wonky. I have dozens of various movie files on my system, and I find mpg to be the most likely to give me weird issues. Like... no matter what player I use (VLC, Quicktime, Media Player with CCCP in Windows) they do not play correctly. OK.... they will play just fine, but I can not scrub through the video, and if I press pause, it take forever for the video to start playing again... it is quite annoying.
Do you have Perian installed? Have you verified that the mpgs work via VLC?
Yes, I tried it on vlc and it works with no issues.
I just installed quicktime again and yeah, im having the same issue
I just installed quicktime again and yeah, im having the same issue
Purchased the mpeg component..?, elaborate please, I am a pro user for quicktime and perian, I jsut searched for it, and it looks like a nice, think im going to download it or should I not....?
Searched for what? Perian? If Perian, then absolutely download it. It is a great addition to Quicktime.
mrwizardno2
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he's right. I installed Perian, and still can't play back mpg files.
VLC works, but QuickTime won't
VLC works, but QuickTime won't
apfhex
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Can't play any files ending in .mpg, or can't play one particular file? QT Player can handle MPEG files just fine. If you have a MPEG-2 file (.m2v) you need the MPEG-2 plugin purchasable from Apple. It's possible the files was named .mpg but is actually something else, perhaps VLC will ignore file extension when playing files and that's why it's not having problems? Just speculating.
The file ends in .mpg but when I tried opening another .mpg it worked....weird
I'm going to download it again.
I'm going to download it again.
I want you to do something for us. Open this file in VLC, hit Command + I, click in the Advanced Information tab, and tell us what Stream 0 and Stream 1 say.
That will tell us what codecs we're dealing with. By telling us you have an MPEG file that won't play barely tells us anything. You must provide the codec.
That will tell us what codecs we're dealing with. By telling us you have an MPEG file that won't play barely tells us anything. You must provide the codec.
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I can usually open mpgs in QuickTime but some don't always work. For any troublesome mpgs I use MPEGStreamclip which is free.
I can usually open mpgs in QuickTime but some don't always work. For any troublesome mpgs I use MPEGStreamclip which is free.
i'm having the same problem. If someone could help us with this one?
i installed perian too. the file plays properly with vlc player.
codec says: mpga and mpgv.
what else is missing?
i installed perian too. the file plays properly with vlc player.
codec says: mpga and mpgv.
what else is missing?
the .mpg could mean lots of things- it's used for many formats. Some readable by Perian, some not. VLC generally has much more compatibility than Perian, though it has its weaknesses. It really annoys me, too, that the file extensions are so ambiguous.