just want to play an mpg

I downloaded 40 MBs of movie players to view this one
multi-part mpg i downloaded from a newsgroup. I downloaded
and decoded each part of the mpg file successfully with
Xnews and saved it to disk. The file is not currupted and
all parts are there. Windows Media Player9 error
says "Class factory cannot supply requested class".
Quicktime says "could not open file because it is not a
file quicktime understands" DivX says "Failed to open
file. Please check that it is a valid AVI or MPEG-4 file."
All players are the latest up-to-date free versions.

What does a guy need to look at a simple mpeg file? My
webtv can play mpegs for cryin out loud!

I have the same problem

If you downloaded the mpg from a newsgroup, there's a good chance it's
damaged... Try downloading it again...

Also... When you decoded the file segments, did you tell it to join them
into one file?

"stevemiller" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1158e01c3f525$b76e4c80$a001280a@phx.gbl...
> I downloaded 40 MBs of movie players to view this one
> multi-part mpg i downloaded from a newsgroup. I downloaded
> and decoded each part of the mpg file successfully with
> Xnews and saved it to disk. The file is not currupted and
> all parts are there. Windows Media Player9 error
> says "Class factory cannot supply requested class".
> Quicktime says "could not open file because it is not a
> file quicktime understands" DivX says "Failed to open
> file. Please check that it is a valid AVI or MPEG-4 file."
> All players are the latest up-to-date free versions.
>
> What does a guy need to look at a simple mpeg file? My
> webtv can play mpegs for cryin out loud!

I downloaded a program called videoLAN and the movie
played fine on it. Got it here:
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-windows.html

There was another program but i didn't try it
called "Elecard", probably find it on google.

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