Audio but no video

[ProfessorU]

Photoshop does not play mpeg files. Maybe you're thinking of Premiere by Adobe?

[guarro]

Photoshop does not play mpeg files. Maybe you're thinking of Premiere by Adobe?

Hmm. Well it [Photoshop Elements 3.0] imports them from my camera as .mpg, and the first frame appears as a thumbnail in the organiser (with a little 'video' icon in the top right corner of the thumbnail), and when I click the thumbnail a photoshop video player window appears, and there is a (albeit brief) section in the Photopshop help entitled 'To view video clips', so I get the impression that it should play.

There is also a facility in the Photshop Editor to import frames from video. When I try this, again I get the black screen, but it definitely is playing somewhere because if I blindly grab a frame during playback the frame does import (I just don't know what the frame is going to be because I can't see anything while grabbing - does this make sense?).

Also, I did have a minor breakthrough yesterday when it played perfectly, but today it's back to square one - just the same black screen again.