Playing M2v clips and editing them in iMovie

Friends,
my Mac does not play M2v Clips, I have bought the Quicktime MPEG 2 download, do I need additional software to play M2V clips please redirect me to teh appropriate thread if this has already been discussed.
thanks
Ashish

Also some movie files with the extension .mpg are not getting played on the MAc, please advise.
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