Opening A Movie File

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Hi All

i have connected my external hardrive, that I used with my PC, to my iMac.
The problem is that there is an MPEG movie on the ext hard drive that I would like to import into IDVD.
When I select this file from the hard drive, it shows the file as an mpg file, with a quicktime "Q" on it, but when I double click it I get the message "The Movie Could Not Be Opened".......can anyone help. I have searched the forum, but cannot see anything that would help me.

Cheers

Philip
 
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Hi All

i have connected my external hardrive, that I used with my PC, to my iMac.
The problem is that there is an MPEG movie on the ext hard drive that I would like to import into IDVD.
When I select this file from the hard drive, it shows the file as an mpg file, with a quicktime "Q" on it, but when I double click it I get the message "The Movie Could Not Be Opened".......can anyone help. I have searched the forum, but cannot see anything that would help me.

Cheers

Philip

If you want to watch the mpeg I suggest VLC media player It rocks and plays just about everything.
 
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Thanks for that Jonnyfive, but I dont just want to play it, I want to also import it into iDVD...which when I try, It says "unknown format"


Philip
 

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