Whats an *.smi file

[videocheez]

I saw some avi files out ther on the internet and associated with each avi file was anotehr file with the suffix *.smi. I was just wondering if anyone knows what this file is and what do you do with it.

Thanks in advance,

VC

[Roundabout]

Googled it:

.smi -
Created by Disk Copy.
A self-mounting image, similar to .img, but does not require the use of Disk Copy.
Download the .smi file and open it. A disk image will appear on your desktop.

I presume smi means "self mounting image". Just a guess.

[Drakng]

I think you are are wrong as far as I know >smi is a subtitle file known as sami, a window format file., not an image file. It is used to create subtitle in a video. You can view it using winsubmux

[Roundabout]

As I stated, this is what came up in Google. I didn't say I knew what the file was. It was purely a guess if it was correct or not.

[Gees]

By memory - and it's shaky this morning - no coffee yet - smi is an extention for Real media files. Check www.real.com There are free programs for developing multi-media presentations that combine video, text, etc. for display in RealPlayer.

The .smi file is like a set of instructions of what to display and when. It's mostly used for online "productions", but I used to use it to display and manipulate pics and scrolling "letters" to family before I got into all this video stuff. :c)

[videocheez]

Thanks for the info guys. I suppose i could download the file and check it out myself. If it's for streaming video does any one know how I would encode to that format. I use adobe premier 6.5 to encode DV to real media format.

Thanks in advance,

VC

[Gees]

Try the Real site link in my post above. They have lots of info and had freeware tools to do it. Although I do recall the free stuff was hidden deep within the site - not easy to find.

Good luck. :c)