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How to play .exe and .dvr video files

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Need urgent help playing .exe and .dvr files on my mac. i know they are video files because i did it. they are from a dvr for surveillance cameras. need these videos to play on my mac asap! if you know any good applications for my mac to convert these files so that they can play and i can chop them up in iMovie and make it all fancy! need your help please :)
 
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EXE files are not movies - they are executables. Have you tried playing the dvr files with VLC?
 
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They played on the windows desktop though. they played in a random program called dvr player. it says its playing but the actual picture of the video doesnt come up. there is no audio to these files so i dont care about the audio i just want the video.
 
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