Quicktime refuses to play anything

I recently tried to play some .mov, mp4 and mpg files however each movie causes quicktime to give an error " Quicktime cannot play this file because it is not a file quicktime understands error (-2048)".
Anyone know what the heck is going on? pls help me

Great advice-- unfortunately all useless!
The -2048 file error is NOT associated with MPEG2 encoded
files specifically. Any quicktime that is corrupted can
generate that error.
I work in a post-production facility and our clients bring
us many, many quicktime files. The 2048 error is frustratingly
non-specific and as far as I have discovered non-recoverable. I have read of people having some success copying
the header info from a working quicktime into the "broken"
one and thereby fixing it, but haven't tried it myself.
Good luck! Let us know if you find a solution.

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