Whenever I download a movie clip & try to launch it I get the message "could not launch because a software component needed by the movie could not be found". How do I get around this?

G4 Powerbook 550mhz
OS 10.2.5
512 MB RAM

VLC (Video Lan Client) media player plays many formats that quicktime doesn't. You can get it at www.videolan.org

Thanks for the reply. I'll try downloading it now & hopefully it'll work.

Ok I downloaded the VLC, now how do I get a downloaded movie to play thru it? It keeps trying to play thru my quicktime player as a default.

You should really keep QT as your default player, but you can find a movie and select show info from the file toolbar. There choose open with application and select VLC. If you want VLC to play all your movies choose change all. Another way to do it is to open up VLC and choose open file from the file toolbar, then select the movie.

Thanks for the reply. I'll try that out.