Digital still camera AVI to mpeg ?

[I.P. Nightly]

I have a Canon Powershot A40. It has a feature to take a AVI video clip and I wish to convert this to a mpeg. I have tried the step in the newbie section. I have run the avi through LSX-mpeg encoder and TMPGEnc with no luck. Both times I got an error that the file type is not supported. It is only a 5 second avi clip. Cameras owner book describes the movie as "AVI (Image data: Motion JPEG, Audio data:WAVE [Monoaural]).

Does anybody have any suggestions?

[I.P. Nightly]

Anybody?

[trainspotter01]

u know wat man? i have the same problem too
i'm using canon power shot s45 and i was going to do the same thing but tmpgenc doesnt support motion jpeg
so have u found a good converter yet?

[Cornucopia]

cuppla Q's to clarify:

Do you have an MJPEG codec installed? There are a number of them, and they're not all compatible (Pic, Mainconcept, Matrox, Buz, AVID, etc)--which one is supposed to work with your files? Does the codec come on a software install disc?

Can you even play the file via WMP?

Do you have a video editing proggy that is known to work with those files? If so, I'd export from there into huffyuv or something.


BTW, I love your ID!

Scott

[trainspotter01]

u know wat? i found the codec on mainconcept's website
i install it and then open tmpgenc, and it works!!!!
free & easy~

*whose ID u r talking about?

[Cornucopia]

sorry trainspotter01,

yours is good too, but I meant "I.P.Nightly"
Grade school humor, I know, but some late nights it hits the spot.

[I.P. Nightly]

u know wat? i found the codec on mainconcept's website
i install it and then open tmpgenc, and it works!!!!
free & easy~

*whose ID u r talking about?

That's good news.
Can you post the link to the site and which file you downloaded?
I forgot about this thread.
No response since Dec.
Thanks for replying.

[trainspotter01]

here u go dude! hope it helps
http://www.mainconcept.com/de/downloads.shtml