mpeg2 player

I have a film in mpeg2 format.
XP media player won`t play it at all. I tried elecard MPEG2 player and
videolan player but at best there is poor sound and very blocky ,
unwatchable, picture.
I suppose the file could be dodgy but is there another player or plugins or
whatever I can try?

 

It could be your display drivers. What graphics card do you have?

 

Try WinDVD or PowerDVD

 

Then your file is probably very low quality, not matter what program u use
it will make it no better

 

You need a DVD codac as suplied with any software dvd player. Only then will
Media player play them

 

Where did you download the file from ? Did you make it ?

What is the file extention ?

In Windows Media Player you can hit the F1 key and choose
the search tab and type in :

supported file types

and hit the "List Topics" button. Then double click the
"supported file types" topic and look at the list of
file types on the right hand column. If you don't see the
file extention you are trying to play then it won't work.

Hmmmm.... one option to try is to compare a public
mpeg2 file online. Go here and see if you can play it.
I got it to play witn MMP and Winamp but it played in
Real One player upside down.

http://download2.tabuleiro.com/samplemedia/DM_Mpeg2_625.mpg

The site I found it is here :

http://xtras.tabuleiro.com/download/sample_media.htm

Report any error messages.

JM