mpg will not play

[AeR0]

i have this mpg movie file and when i try watching it on windows media player it wont and it trys to get the codecs but than gives me an error

whats up with that?

can anyone help me?

[video_guy]

Can you please post what the error says? Most likely the mpeg file is corrupted.

[hwoodwar]

AeR0:

It may be encoded in MPEG-2 format. If you do not play DVDs or SVCDs on your system, you probably do not have one installed. I suggest you install one of the free MPEG-2 codecs and try again. I prefer the elcard MPEG-2 codec. It can be installed from the Kazaa Lite codec pack. I suggest you only install codecs you are missing, otherwise you might mess up some other video application.

[dxj40c]

I once used the ATI Aiw 128 PCI capture card and captured a lot of files in one of the formats available with the ATI.

Years later I ran across these files on CD and decided to take a look at them and got the type of messages you did. I had moved ahead to better computers and new software and no longer use that particular video card. I did a little research and found it was a format propriatary to ATI and I could download the neccessary codec from the ATI site. Maybe you have a situation like this, that is, if you have viewed them before.