Sharing video between MAC and PC

[ElDiabloConCaca]

The MPEG-2 was a paid download -- effectively an add-on to Quicktime -- in order to play MPEG-2 formatted video. Your videos appear not to be MPEG-2, so this should be a non-issue.

Quicktime does not include many plug-ins, but if you did default Quicktime installs on both machines, then yes, they should include similar functionality (minus any platform-specific functionality, of course). If you manually installed an add-on on one system, though, then it won't be present on the other system (obviously) unless you also installed it there as well.

What happens if you actually copy the video file (instead of streaming and/or sharing) from the Mac to the PC -- will the video then play on the PC?

Open Quicktime on the Mac, then open a movie file. Do a "Get Info" while in Quicktime (command-i) and an "Inspector" or "Information" window should open that has such information as video size, bitrate, codec and runtime. Take a screenshot of that information window and post it here -- it may contain information about why the video plays on one machine and not another.

[Silver_Surfer]

Apologies to all the respondents for not putting this solution up earlier. Had issues !!!
Anyway...it turns out that the way to solve this conundrum is that you have to take your movies convert into apple TV format and re add them to itunes. Then you can share them across the machines no problem.

Hope that helps anyone else who comes across this.

Thanks