Quicktime Movies between systems

Some movies downloaded from limewire in mpeg or mpg format will play entirely on a PC, but on a mac only plays the first minute or so. Under the movie info, it will state that the total length is greater than one minute, and the file size is sufficient for say ten minutes, but the remainder of the information seems locked on mac quicktime. Any thoughts or suggestions????

Use MPEG Streamclip (free) to fix the broken time code in your MPEG-1 files.
QuickTime will then play them without error.

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