Mpeg-2 camcorder movie play in quicktime but no sound

I bought a camcorder that saves files to its hard disk as MPG (MPEG-2). I got the extension mpeg-2 so that I could open them in quicktime. I've got the video but no audio. Any ideas?
iMac Mac OS X (10.4.9)

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Message was edited by: jbrianrich

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