I have a file which is with an extension .png. I understood it is a graphics format, but at 1M length I suspect it is a movie. However I can’t get anything to play it. (I have a mac, quicktime 4, IE 5.1, OS 9.1). Any ideas?
Png is a graphics format, but it should be static, as far as I know.
Quick test: Open it through the file menu of your web browser.
.png is an image file (Portable Network Graphics). It’s definitely not a movie format as far as I’m aware.
A PNG file is never an animation. There is a similar format, called [url=http://www.libpng.org/pub/mng/]MNG[/url, which does allow animations to be encoded, but your file shouldn’t be one of these. I’d do what black455 suggests: open it in a viewer that you know will display PNGs properly, and see if it does display properly. If it doesn’t display properly, I’d suggest scanning it for virii. On second thought, I reccomend doing that first, then trying to display it.
I decided to try to get to the bottom of this. Searching the web, I have found movies with a .png attachment, but they are all porno so i can’t link to them here. However searching for google for- png movie rez - will rapidly pick up a few for those who might like to help. No idea (or inclination) how to play them though. The rez part seems to be a needed resource or perhaps codex that is sometimes associated with the files?
as far as my original attachment goes, it is not a virus according to my scanner, (being a machead means never having to worry bout virii, especially those with a windows .extension), but won’t play on quicktime or mediaplayer or similar either.