New Quicktime user needs help with MPEG!

Hi, i'm a first time apple and quicktime user and trying to figure out how i can convert/open my MPEG movie files so that quciktime understands them.
Is using MPEG streamlined app. the only way? cause i'm kinda trying to find a free way of doing it... any suggestions?
thanks.

You have to separate out the audio and video tracks (referred to as "demuxing") of an MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 file before you import it into QuickTime to be able to edit or convert the video. You will need additional software; QuickTime cannot demultiplex MPEG. MPEG Streamclip is a popular utility and is free, and there are others as well, including.
http://www.mpeg2works.2ya.com/
http://www.biermann.org/philipp/mpegcut/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/macbbdemux
http://diva.3ivx.com (may not extract the audio)
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