Can MAC's play .MPG or .MPEG movies?

[KBrinks]

im going to give my girlfriend some video on a CD... she has a MAC.. will she be able to view them?

 

[Joemonkey]

should have no problem viewing them at all

 

[le3tplaya]

this is all asuming that a mac can read the cd, it depends on how you made the cd. if you did one of the direct data cd's maybe. but if you did one of the formats so you can drag and drop, i would doubt it. But if you can get the cd to work, she should deffinatly be able to view them.

 

[Mapidus]

If the cd is in iso or hfs format then her mac should be able to read it. Use quicktime to play the mpegs. UDF disks might also work on OS9/X.

 

[Kadesh]

FYI: UDF = Unusable Disk Format ;¤

Why anyone thought all burners should default to this is beyond my comprehension© CD's are not going to act like floppies and you're not going make them with this stupid hack©

Anyway, MPG 2 ¥the most common¤ is an old format and every slightly modern OS you might find should be able to play it© MPG 4 is seen in stuff like AVI and ASF©

AFAIK, you can't play ASF on Macs ¥at least, I never had to and it's an MS format¤ and you can't play Qt ©mov's in Linux©

 

[Mapidus]

You can play ASFs and avis on macs with Windows Media Player for the mac and I think certain avis can be played with Quicktime. I know WMP for mac supports MSMPEG4v1 and MSMPEG4v2, and by now might have support for v3, v7, and v8 of the MS codecs. Also there is a divx codec out there.

You can play movs on Linux if the mov was encoded with a codec that your player supports, like cinepak. Currently there is no Sorenson video support though.