Quicktime will play only seconds of file. Solutions?

Last night I downloaded an mpeg of about 250 mb. The file shows as being complete. When I open it and try to play it, it will play about the first 15 seconds, and that's it.
How do I get quicktime to play the whole file?
I've heard VLC is good, but is there a version for intel?
And will quicktime play WMV files, and if it won't, what will play them on my intel?
(It would be nice to watch a file or two on my shiny, expensive new toy!)
Hope these extra questions won't get me flamed, but I see them as stemming from my original QT question, so hopefully you'll forgive, lol.
Thanks,

MPEG Streamclip can "Fix timecode breaks" and then "Convert to MPEG" to save the file in a more QuickTime friendly format.
MPEG Streamclip
http://www.squared5.com/
VLC (VideoLAN Client) - FREE
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-macosx.html
"Latest Mac OS X package for 10.2, 10.3 and 10.4. Requires QuickTime 6.5.2 or later."
An older release for Mac OS X 10.1 is also available on the same page.
VLC Mac OS X Intel builds!
http://nightlies.videolan.org/build/macosx-intel/
More info on QuickTime components:
http://insanityflows.net/archive/index.php?title=QuickTime

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