My video files are .mov but won't play in QuickTime 7 - says it doesn't recognize them. Any suggestions?

Can someone help? I am using windows 7

Your file is likely using MPEG-2 compression and this free software could open it:
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-windows.html

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