i'm a little compused. I've got many mp3's, those are music files, and i've got som mpg files, those are films+ right, because they show them selves as films, but what's the difference between mpg and mpeg? i've got som Mgp files, that are supposed to be videoes, but when i play them, they pley as if they were musicfiles, but they're not, and theres no music.. so is it because the files are distroyed? or dont i have the right program to run it? i've got winamp and windows mediaplayer, the latest version. please help me.. Go into Winamp properties and make it only play .mp3 files........ then change the properties of Windows Media player to play .mpg and .mpeg files......

as for the different between .mpeg and .mpg....... I don't THINK their is one.....

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I would try out my first suggestion, if that doesn't work..... check the mpg files by going to the open menu in WMV (windows media viewer) and opening it manually.If that doesn't work.... your files might be CORRUPT.... what kind of icon is above the file?

and you said that you had some Mgp files? was that a typo? because if it was not.... they are not in the correct format and need to be RENAMED to .MpgMPG may be some kind of format that you require a specific codec for..

See this article for INFORMATION on MPEG.Don't quote me on this, but I think MPEG is the name of the group who created the standard for playing both videos and sound on a PC (and other digital formats) and MPG is the shortened version, used in the filenames ie "video.mpg". Go to Start > Settings > Folder Options, click on the View tab and de-select "Hide File Extensions for Known File TYPES" and you'll see what I mean.

As I say, it's just a reasoned guess. I'm pretty sure it's a similar situation with JPEG images - JPEG stands for Joint Photographic Expert Group, the folk who invented it, and JPG is the file extension because some OS's limit the length to just three letters/numbers.

So, basically, they're exactly the same thing, but totally different...

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I'll get my coat...