Videos emailed from my iPhone4 won't open or play on the recipients' computer. Is this a quicktime/windows media player issue? What is the best way to solve this ? THANKS!

Is the recipient using QuickTime on their PC to view the video?
What is the error message provided when trying to open/view the video?

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