Hi All,

I'm REALLY hoping somebody can help out here! I've got several short
clips of around 20 seconds each recorded onto an SD card via a Pentax
S6 digital camera running in movie mode - it records .AVI files.

They playback as well as can be expected in the camera but I can't
find any way of storing them and playing them on my PC - has anybody
got any ideas?

Quality is not especially important - for complicated reasons they are
all the movie media I have after a trip to Hong Kong and I would like
to be able to perhaps edit them together in some way, or at least to
play them.

They are .AVI files but Windows Media Player only plays the sound.

Any advice would be most welcome!

Terence

"Terence Watts" wrote in message
...
Hi All,

I'm REALLY hoping somebody can help out here! I've got several short
clips of around 20 seconds each recorded onto an SD card via a
Pentax
S6 digital camera running in movie mode - it records .AVI files.
snip

Which is a meaningless bit of information, the .avi file extension is
just a wrapper.

You need to find out what codec has been used, download 'GSpot'
(http://gspot.headbands.com/) and install, load the .avi file into
that program, it will tell you what codec has been used amongst other
things.

Once you know the codec you can either Google or come back here for
some more advise on editors, media players etc.

"Terence Watts" wrote in message
...
Hi All,

I'm REALLY hoping somebody can help out here! I've got several short
clips of around 20 seconds each recorded onto an SD card via a Pentax
S6 digital camera running in movie mode - it records .AVI files.

They playback as well as can be expected in the camera but I can't
find any way of storing them and playing them on my PC - has anybody
got any ideas?

Quality is not especially important - for complicated reasons they are
all the movie media I have after a trip to Hong Kong and I would like
to be able to perhaps edit them together in some way, or at least to
play them.

They are .AVI files but Windows Media Player only plays the sound.

Any advice would be most welcome!

Terence

These will be motion jpegs and the application to view them is Quick time
and no doubt came on the cd with your camera

On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 12:53:57 -0000, ":Jerry:"
wrote:


"Terence Watts" wrote in message
.. .
Hi All,

I'm REALLY hoping somebody can help out here! I've got several short
clips of around 20 seconds each recorded onto an SD card via a
Pentax
S6 digital camera running in movie mode - it records .AVI files.
snip

Which is a meaningless bit of information, the .avi file extension is
just a wrapper.

You need to find out what codec has been used, download 'GSpot'
(http://gspot.headbands.com/) and install, load the .avi file into
that program, it will tell you what codec has been used amongst other
things.

Once you know the codec you can either Google or come back here for
some more advise on editors, media players etc.


Thank you Jerry - I'll follow that bit of excellent advice later on
today!

Terence

On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 13:03:40 -0000, "Trev" trevbowdenAT.dsl.pipex.COM
wrote:


"Terence Watts" wrote in message
.. .
Hi All,

I'm REALLY hoping somebody can help out here! I've got several short
clips of around 20 seconds each recorded onto an SD card via a Pentax
S6 digital camera running in movie mode - it records .AVI files.

They playback as well as can be expected in the camera but I can't
find any way of storing them and playing them on my PC - has anybody
got any ideas?

Quality is not especially important - for complicated reasons they are
all the movie media I have after a trip to Hong Kong and I would like
to be able to perhaps edit them together in some way, or at least to
play them.

They are .AVI files but Windows Media Player only plays the sound.

Any advice would be most welcome!

Terence

These will be motion jpegs and the application to view them is Quick time
and no doubt came on the cd with your camera

Hmm... well, that didn't work either :-( Downloading a DivX codec
seems to have done the trick though.

Thanks for your thoughts, anyway.

Terence