Help please with Video clip

[Solitary Wanderer]

Hi everyone:

I have a Canon IXUS70 digital camera which can take short video clips.

I can load these onto my HD and they will play in Windows Media.

However if I try to email the file it dosen't work even if I put it in a folder first.

Do I need to convert it to a different sort of file and how??

The tag it comes out of the camera with is .THM

Thanks 

[scarpia]

THM is a "thumbnail" file.  It is not the video clip, it is the icon that your computer is using to represent the video clip in whatever file manipulation software you are using.

[M forever]

In addition to that, the file is probably simply too big. Most email sites have attachment size limits, e.g. 10MB. The only way to transport the file is to either upload it to a fileshosting service such as rapidshare or yousendit or any of the many others, or, if it is not that big, to simply break it down into smaller parts. For that, many people use a program called HJSplit which is free and extremely easy to use. An even simpler way IMO is to just compress the file into a rar archive, and you can have that file broken up into several parts at the same time (there is a fialog somewhere at the bottom of the window in WinRar which allows you to define the size of the individual parts). The advantage is that if you send these parts one by one, they can be put together while they are decompressed by WinRar and I think pretty much everyone has that program or a comparable file compression/decompression program. You can probably do the same with WinZip and other compression formats as well.

[Maciek]

Re large attachments - you can also try pando (www.pando.com). Though I haven't used it in quite a while - don't know if it still works.

(Or you could try P2M.)