Can't watch a mpg movie!

I got a movie that was origanilly recorded on a HDV format (m2t file extension) that was converted into a MPG file with a PC application (Ulead Video Studio 11 Plus). I could not watch this MPG movie on my Mac because Quicktime does not support this format. I then bought the Quicktime MPEG2 add-on that, according to Apple's home page, would enable Quicktime to play a MPG movie. I still cannot watch it and all I see is the movie control tab without any movie playing above it. Does anyone have any good idea what is going on?
Thanks.
WAG

Even with the mpeg2 component there are some forms of mpeg2 that QT cannot play. Try the freeware, as it can handle some of those formats: Mpeg StreamClip
You can also try this freeware: VLC
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