How to play an MPGA file?

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Viktor A

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None of this worked. No matter how I renamed the file, it always showed up on the Palm as XXX.mpeg.mp3/mp4/etc. I tried renaming the original file and THEN copying it to the card, I tried renaming the file after it had been copied. It all turned out the same.

The bizarre thing is that I don't think I've seen a file with an 'mpeg' extension. I know it's a file type; but not an extension. Aren't most MPEG files appended with something like mp4, m4a, etc.?

Also, I thought even in .mpeg format, that some app like TCPMP or Kinoma would play it as video, without actual video displaying.

My big mistake was not converting it during the download, as Downloadhelper lets you do that. Unfortunately, the link is gone, so I can't re-download it.
 
THANKS Jig! I wondered if it wasn't just a sub-form of MP3. I was going to try the renaming as a last resort.

I can try renaming using FileZ too, right? I'm going to try that.
 
I'm not sure where this should go: here or 'multimedia' but since Multimedia hasn't changed since the Summer, I thought this might be a bit more active.

I downloaded a 'podcast' from a NY radio station using Downloadhelper. (For some reason, the 'download' button on the actual site didn't do anything.)

I got a 70 MB file that both my computer and my Palm identify as 'mpeg'. I wanted to listen to it on my Palm; but nothing would open it (TCPMP, Kinoma, pTunes). TCPMP seemed to indicate it was actually an MPEG-2 file. I looked under the media info using VLC (which does play it on my laptop) and it indicates that the codec is 'mpga.' I don't think I've ever heard of mpga, and it doesn't show up on Wikipedia. I Googled just 'mpga' and found some devices that list it as a codec that they play.

Obviously, I can listen to it using VLC on a computer; but for future reference, if I download something from this site again, I'm wondering what approaches I can use to play files like this in the future?
 
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