Playing Motion JPEG

I have an old analog capture card on my PC (miro dc20). I would like to be able to play these motion jpeg files on my mac and edit them as well. Usually you can just download a motion jpeg codec for the pc and it will play these old files. What is the solution for my mac so I can throw the old frozen TV dinner box they call a pc out the window?

I found a workaround solution for my problem. It won't allow me to play my old files but if I just convert them on my PC to a .mov in DV format, the results are perfect. It stinks because I have about 500 music videos in the old format and they will all have to be converted. I'll just convert as I go I guess. I'm still curious if there is a codect though. My G5 will encode alot faster than my 450 mhz Dell

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I have Motion Jpeg video clip, which I need only to resize from 1920x1080 to 768x432.
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