Mac OS X, Windows

Use VLC to Open Files with QCP File Extension

Occasionally you’ll have a technical problem and a Google search fails to provide you a fix.  In this case a lot of the information was too old.

I was forwarded a voice mail from a Driod Incredible (a .qcp file).  I needed to play it in Mac OS X.  My google search offered:

  • Windows Media Player will play it natively (No in 9 and No in 11)
  • Quicktime (No)
  • Qualcomm has a player (it has been pulled from their site for legal reasons)
  • Various downloads to try on my PC but none panned out (should have done this testing in a VM so I could have easily rolled back the changes).

In the end, I tried it in VLC (Version 1.0.5 Goldeneye (Intel 32bit)) on the Mac and it worked.  I wasn’t able to drag and drop the file but was able to use the Open dialog.  Worked in VLC on the PC too.  Is this a harbinger of things to come?  Having to work with qcp files?