Posted by Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media] on 11/12/07 22:52

On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 13:31:34 -0800, Adam C <adamchernow@gmail.com>
wrote:

>Does anyone know how to play a .3g2 file? Verizon says I should be
>able to play it with Quicktime but I get an error message of "Bad
>Movie Atom" no matter what .3g2 file I try and play. (I've tried
>playing ones shot on my cell phone and one from someone else).
>
>I've tried this on the latest version of Quicktime on both Mac & PC
>and several video players on Linux with no luck.


Real Player 11 should be able to play that too.
http://uk.real.com/player/more

Sometimes the movie atom ends up at the end rather than the start of
the file, which causes the Quicktime error.

There's not a good (simple) way to fix it in Quicktime if it can't
read it, you'd have to use a video editor which can read MOV files and
Save As in that to move the moov atom to the start of the file.

HTH
Cheers - Neil
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