There are several forms of MPEG files:

• MPEG-1 - found mainly on the net. The files produced are quite small when compared to the original un-
  compressed file.
• MPEG-2 - used in broadcasting and DVD disks. This is high quality but produces larger files than MPEG-1.
• MP3 - used for highly compressing audio files. Based on MPEG-1.
• MPEG-4 - another high compression format similar to MPEG-1 but producing smaller files.    Also DivX/AVI ?

Read more about MPEG!

Finding MPEG Files on the Net!
There are numerous sites on the net that have MPEG files that you can download. Try using a good Search Engine like YAHOO with the terms MPEG movies, audio visual, or multimedia. Also search sites like Yahoo Groups for multimedia.

NEWSGROUPS are also a good source of MPEG files. ( READ THIS for a explanation of NEWSGROUPS.) Use your Newsreader's search function to look for newsgroups with multimedia in the title.
e.g. alt.binaries.multimedia.3-stooges
      alt.binaries.multimedia.erotica

Movie Downloads Link List
Use the link below to generate an up-to-date list of Web Sites where you can download MPEG Movies to view.
The list will open in a new window and may take a moment to complile.

Because emails and newsgroup postings are restricted to less than 1 megabyte file attachments, a movie of decent quality (which can be up to 10mb per minute) needs to be split into parts of 500-650 kb.
You can recognise a split MPEG file because it will look like this:
3-stooges.mpg.045 (or .mpeg.045)
This indicates that it is part 45 of a split MPEG movie file.

Splitting a file (not only MPEG files) can be achieved with a 'file-splitting' software program. There are numerous ones around such as "WINSPLIT" "HJSPLIT" etc.
"J.A.S." (Just Another Splitter) is highly recommended. It is available FREE from the 'Downloads' page. These same programs can be used to rejoin the split parts for viewing.
View the J.A.S. 'ReadMe' File!

Joining Split Files!
You will need:

• A file splitter/joiner program
• Part 001 of the file (*.mpg.001)
• As many other parts as possible.

See the next page (Joining Split Files - for more details)
You can view the .001 part without joining but *no other parts are viewable without first rejoining the file.
*Check out Super Decoder here

What is yEnc?
If you download from newsgroups you may have seen a new method of encoding called yEnc. yEnc is not a new type of file but a new more efficient way of encoding binary images (compared to the standard UU encoding). You will need to decode the yEnc files before viewing, joining etc.
Check out our Help Files on yEnc here.