Can my Sony Handycam .mpg files play on a Mac?
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I've got a couple of Sony Handycam .mpg files. Obviously when I use Windows Movie Maker to publish an edited version, it creates a .wmv file. Which can't be played by Mac (or so my friends tell me). If I give my friends the unedited .mpg file, will they be able to play that on their Mac? Thanks
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Answer:
Actually, Mac users who download the free Flip4Mac plug-in for QuickTime CAN play WMVs. I use it all the time when work requires me to check on a WMV while I'm on a Mac: http://www.telestream.net/flip4mac-wmv/overview.htm That said, given the unedited .mpg that your camera makes, they might be able to play it back. I don't know. It depends on how that MPEG is encoded. There's a decent chance that they can - but if you can play it back in, say, VLC media player ( http://www.videolan.org ) and look at the A/V properties to check out the video specifications, you can find a few more format details, including codec, and be able to better determine whether your friends can play the MPG. Or, you can just give them one of those MPG files to test it and see what happens. Strong recommendations for video: -Flip4Mac WMV Player (Mac users) -VLC Media Player (All users - Mac, Windows, Linux, etc.)
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I have never heard of a camcorder that creates Mpeg2 Files.. All..camcorders create DV-files.. My computer will upload those DV-files as either a DV-avi File..or a MPEG2 File(my choice)..I always create the DV-avi File(upload).. === Movie Maker has 3-versions.. Movie Maker ver. 2 Movie Maker ver. 3 Windows Live Movie Maker === There is a version called Movie Maker 2.1/ === Apple Products use the .mov file.. I would think they would accept a wma/wmv file.. The MPEG2 file is used for DVD-video..its a compression file.. DV and DV-avi is considered Large File.. There is also a wma/wmv file called Large File(ntsc)..[end]
If your files are Mpeg-4 then the mac will open them with quicktime. Quicktime is a free program. It should already be on their mac, so yes you can send it to them unedited, you can also download quicktime for your windows computer too, to play those unedited files.
snowwillow20
Nope. Mac often plays video in MOV, MP4, DV, and Windows computer play video in WMV, AVI, MPEG, ASF. But you can change WMV to MOV/MP4 using video converter so that they can be played normally on your Mac.
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