Quicktime won't play muxed mpeg-2 video

I have 2 problems here. I originally tried to play several muxed mpeg-2 videos from a hockey program that keeps track of plays, goals, hits, etc. There is no video and the audio cuts in and out. So next they made a DVD for me using those same video clips. The DVD plays fine in my mac, but when I tried to rip the video using "mpeg streamclip" the same thing happened, no video and bad audio. I downloaded Perian just in case and still no luck. Anyone have any advice? Thanks.

No, Quicktime does not natively play muxed formats.
For that you need mpegStreamclip:
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/video/mpegstreamclip.html
which is free, as well as the the Apple mpeg2 plugin :
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/mpeg2/
which is a mere $20.

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