Suitable Apple Extention for a PC video

I own a CD Rom of a video that can only be opened by WIndows 95 or higher, PC format only. It is part of a course on vocal improvement. A friend has a PC, and thinks he can copy the video for me, but he is not current with Apple requirements, and has asked me to tell him an extention to save it, then he can duplicate it for me.
I really don't think it will play on my iMac. I can open the CD itself for the lists, and the items that will not open - are called: vssver.scc and autorun.inf and browsercall.exe
I think my question is - I need to know the letters to put after the period, that Apple can run, like 'exe' above. What does Apple use. My PC friend called this an extention.
Thanks

.EXE files are simply like Mac OS X applications, but designed only to run in Windows.
What you need to know is the CD format, and the document format of the video, and version of the document format. If you know those three, you know what will allow a Mac to read it. See my FAQ*:
http://www.macmaps.com/macosxnative.html#WINTEL
Unfortunately the iMac G5 will have a hard time running .EXE files due to the requirement for emulation. Video files that have no DRM are usually pretty easy to convert to a format the iMac G5 will read. CDs of the Joliet format are not as easily read as ISO 9660 CDs. A FAT16 or FAT32 flash drive should mount on the iMac G5 just fine.
The SCC file is a file that can be read by a program called Annotation Edit:
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/31486&vid=528692
You'll need the video of the file converted to Windows Media version 9 or earlier without DRM or Quicktime.
Contact the developer of Annotation Edit to see if they can help with this conversion.
- * Links to my pages may give me compensation.
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