.mpg on WMP9.0??

I can’t believe... - I have some .mpg movies which I can’t play in my Windovs Media Player v9.0 - and some .mpg that I can play...and everywhere I turn/ask, people suggest that I install/re-install MWP v9.0... I have done that and it did not help...

Any suggestion is welcome...

These may be mpeg-2 files (as opposed to mpeg-1). Windows Media Player won’t be able to handle them without a third party mpeg-2 decoder.
Common solutions:
1. Play the file with media player classic, downloadable if you follow the link at
http://www.gabest.org
2. Download the elecard mpeg-2 decoder.
http://www.elecard.com/products/mpeg2decoder.shtml
3. Get DVD software (PowerDVD or WinDVD for example - they’re almost never free though)

Oh, and just to check, you might want to run gspot to verify the contents of the file. A lot of files (especially on file-sharing networks) get renamed to other extensions (avi to mpg, asf to mpg etc)

I personally have run into this problem, and after a lot of asking around/independant research I’ve discovered that some movies with *.mpg format are what they/we call SVCD ie. “Super VCD”. Basically it’s MPEG-2 format with better audio/visual quality when compared to MPEG-1. WMP won’t play MPGs in the SVCD format unless you download a decoder, but the easiest to to play your movie is to use a DVD player. I reccomend Cyberlink’s PowerDVD. your home DVD player might play SVCDs.

But keep the following in mind. If your movie you downloaded came as a *.bin/*.cue file then DON"T attempt to open the *.bin file with something like ISObuster and just copy/extract the *.mpg file. That didn’t seem to work when i tried it. Try burning the *.bin file using a burner that burns images. eg Nero does this I believe. If you try that, Im not sure if it PowerDVD will play the mpg alone, but I know for a fact if you burn the image file correctly (including the those EXT, MPEG etc, folders contained in it) PowerDVD should play it. WMP won’t though from what ive tried so far.

Or you could use a CD cloner, but I don’t know much about this.

I hope that was helpful.