I have been using a torrent (eg. bit torrent) site to download movie
files. I have  gotten a few of them and some work. However, some of
the files I am unable to play  with the media players that I have.
This shouldn't be because the files don't seem that unusual. both
files that I am having trouble with are m-peg layer-3. My Windows
media player and real player and quicktime just play the audio when I
try to open them with them. I can only hear audio.

So .. now you have the background. 

What media player to I have to use to play these kind of files? and/or
what process do I have to go through to get these files to work
properly.

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Request for Question Clarification by sublime1-ga on 23 Sep 2006 13:46 PDT

Try the VLC Media Player:
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

Let me know if this satisfies your interests...

sublime1-ga

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Clarification of Question by jpfexperiment-ga on 24 Sep 2006 23:32 PDT

Your suggestions of using http://www.videolan.org/vlc/   solved my
problem. Thanks  it works great now!!

JPF

JPF...

Thanks for confirming my response as an answer. I'll repeat
the information here for the sake of future readers.

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Try the VLC Media Player:
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

I've personally found this useful with videos that have
trouble playing in Windows Media Player or other media
players.

sublime1-ga

This is all you need. Install this and it installs the codecs to play
within your Windows media player

http://www.free-codecs.com/download/Codec_Pack_All_in_1.htm