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3gp files won't play

I've got some video on my old phone. Downloaded on to laptop with Windows 7 Home Premium. They won't play. I'm sure they played on my old laptop (Vista). They are quite important. What do I need to do ti be able to view them? Thanks for your help.

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  • Meepster
    Meepster Posts: 5,955 Forumite
    Download VLC player: http://www.videolan.org/

    Much, MUCH better than WMP and will play just about any file type...
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  • paddyrg
    paddyrg Posts: 13,543 Forumite
    ^^^ This is absolutely correct - anything FFMPEG can play, VLC can play - very powerful, useful and FREE tool :-)
  • davester
    davester Posts: 4,079 Forumite
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    paddyrg wrote: »
    ^^^ This is absolutely correct - anything FFMPEG can play, VLC can play - very powerful, useful and FREE tool :-)

    Your old phone uses real player format but VLC will play them as well.
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