.xtm file extention

[whiteshoes]

i have a file with the extention .xtm , i have tried running it thru winrar in the usual fashion but to no avail.
any help would be much appreciated
tia

[BJ_M]

http://filext.com/detaillist.php?extdetail=XTM

[BJ_M]

nothing to do w/ winrar ....

it is a topic map file

[whiteshoes]

thank you 4 ur response...but what software do i now use to convert them into an avi file?

[redwudz]

It may be mislabeled. .XTM doesn't appear to be a video file extension. Try dropping it into Gspot. It can sometimes read a file with the wrong extension. What kind of file is it supposed to be?

[whiteshoes]

i have 89 files with this extention,they were suppose to b avis..... i tried to use g spot on the first file but was not sure what to do???

[redwudz]

Gspot should just work as drag and drop. Have you went into 'Tools>Folder Options>View' and unchecked 'Hide extensions for known file types'? Otherwise you may not be seeing the extension name properly.

After that if you really think they are AVIs, try changing one of the extensions to .avi instead of .xtm and see if you can play them.

[whiteshoes]

the actual filereads.... file name.avi.004.xtm and i have gspot v2.5 but it doesnt seem to recognise the files

[kschang]

Could be they just added some BS extension to trick the system that don't allow AVI's. Take out the XTM extension, then use WINRAR to put the different pieces back together, and you'll probably get an AVI.

[whiteshoes]

thank you 4 the suggestion .... i tried this but still nothing happened when i used winrar to try to put all the files back together.. i used the par2 file and this just wanted to rename all the files( im presuming back to .xtm )

[redwudz]

Those are numbered a little strange for RAR. This from a RAR page:

They may have extensions .rar (the first volume), .r00, .r01, ..., or .part1.rar (the first volume), .part2.rar, ..., etc

You may have to rename them to a standard RAR format for your RAR program to recognize them.

Or you might take one of them and copy it, then rename the copy to filename.avi and see if that works.

And the final thought is those are bogus files, just designed to waste your time. I've see that a few times on the net.

[kschang]

Another possibility... Try 7-Zip. A multipart file would show up like that. I did one just the other day and it came out as originalname.ext.001, 002, and so on.

[whiteshoes]

could u plz give me a walk thru on how 2 use this 7-zip program. i have tried all the renames advised but 2 no avail

[BJ_M]

ok -- i figured it out ...

i found a bunch of these files and opend them up in a hex editor ...


they are using "Xtremsplit" , a windows, mac and linux file packer and splitter - written in french

http://www.clubic.com/telecharger-fiche14862-xtremsplit.html

http://www.xtremsplit.tk/

[redwudz]

I think you may have got it, BJ_M.

whiteshoes, if your French isn't too good, a way I translate is to put that website into Google, hit search and it will give you the option to translate it. Probably a better way, but it works good enough.