Jerry wrote in message ...

>Most likely:
>  (a) this is a new form of MPEG that Quicktime 4 doesn't yet
>understand. I think this is unlikely, since as far as I know MPEG is a
>specific format, not an encapsulation of other formats. But if MPEG can
>encapsulate other formats, I'd call this the most likely problem.


Nope.  This is 24 different MPEG-1 movies.  This is a well-defined single
format.

>  (b) the file was corrupted in transit; for example, if it was FTP'd,
>it might have been FTP'd in text mode.


Damn near impossible.  I downloaded the movies as 3 zip archives.  All of
the archives test out OK, the movies can be extracted properly, and I can
find players to display all 24 of them.

>  (c)  Or it might be that it isn't really an MPEG file, it just has the
>.mpg extension, and is actually another video format (divx?) that is
>relatively new, and that the other players understand but that Quicktime
>doesn't yet.


You mean that we actually got a round of the IRTC anims contest where no
MPEG-1 movies were submitted, yet there were very few problems displaying
the movies, and the submissions checking script didn't scream bloody murder
about people submitting their movies in the wrong format?

(yes, I'm being sarcastic)

Mark

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