Troubleshooting MPEG movie playing

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Windows & Windows Media player - The MPEG-2 files often work in Windows Media Player version 11. However, Firefox and Internet Explorer seem to play these using the default Quicktime plugin, which will not work. In this case, your options are to:

Save the movie (right click, choose "Save Link As ..." and save in a location) then open it with Windows Media Player, or
Change the default action for MPG movies ...

Firefox v.2.0
- Select Tools -> Options.
- Choose the Content Tab
- Click "Manage..." under File types
- For the MPG, change the action to "Open with default application (Windows Media Player)"
Older versions of Firefox
- Select Tools -> Options -> Downloads -> "View & Edit Actions ..." -> Select MPG, then click "Change Action" and select "Open with default application".

Mac, Linux and Windows users - Download and install the VLC media player, which has been verified to play the HURSAT MPG videos.
A website available through Lawrence Livermore provides more information and software available there has been found to play the HURSAT MPEGs.
For what it is worth, the MPEG files were created using mpeg2encode .