Quicktime video email attachment wont play

I have a Quicktime email video attachment (470Kb) that wont play on my iPod Touch, just get the message 'This movie could not be played'. It plays fine on my computer so its not corrupted. I have no problems playing YouTube videos etc: so I cannot understand what the problem is. Any sugestions?

There are QuickTime formats that will not play on iPods because the video format is not correct. Height, width, frame rate, etc. are all important to whether or not a video can be played on the touch. (I could send you a link to the touch specs but it seems overly complicated.)
If you have QuickTime pro, you could convert the file to one that could be played on your touch. Even if you don't, you could copy the file into iTunes and run the iTunes conversion program on it.

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