Quicktime wont play my movies....

I recently downloaded the uprgrades for quicktime, but now when I visit websites and I save the .mpeg formats to my comp, when I go to open the movie I get a message that quicktime cant read the file and leaves a number(-2048). How do I continue to download and watch my movies???

To identify the file*, video and audio** format of a movie or sound file:
QuickTime Player:
Open the file
Window menu > Show movie info
Look in the Format: field
**Note that recently someone posted in the forum that QuickTime Player failed to display any audio information for a file which did play with audio (A52) in VLC.
MPlayer OSX:
Show the playlist window if it isn't already visible.
Drag the movie file into the playlist window.
Select the movie in the list
Click the "i" button for info
VLC:
Open the movie in VLC
Window menu > Info
Click the black triangles so that they point down
*Note that VLC does not display the file format, only the format of the content (audio and video) within the file. A file ending in .divx for instance, is probably in actuality an avi file but VLC doesn't show that information - MPlayer will and QuickTime Player will - if - QuickTime Player will open the file to begin with.
QuickTime MPEG 2 Playback component for QuickTime 6 and 7 - $20
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/mpeg2/
QuickTime components, info and other download links (including VLC and MPlayer OSX links.)
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=323449&tstart=15

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