It just comes up with an error message saying QT can't open this. The problem is that when you get a MPEG file onto QuickTime player, it looks like it's going to play, but doesn't.
If you're on a Mac and got a bunch of video files in MPEG format from Internet, you probably would like to view them through QuickTime player, the default media player preinstalled on Apple Mac machine. This is why MPEG is one of the top-notch choice for archiving movie trailers and music videos to CD/ DVD. Although they are compressed, they maintain most of the original quality of the uncompressed movie. MPEG/ MPG files are compressed movies that can contain both audio and video. How to play MPEG video files with QuickTime player on Mac
