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i4get75:
I have an LG UX5000 that does video.  The video files it stores are .mjpg files.  I've read these are Motion Jpeg and I've tried three different codecs with no results.  I want to be able to convert the movie files to mpg or avi or atleast find a way to play them on my PC.

Freeware would be great also  :)

tinyvillager:
Try this...

http://mp4cam2avi.sourceforge.net/


and maybe...

http://www.redkawa.com/videoconverters/
http://mjpeg.sourceforge.net/
http://www.vicman.net/lib/mjpegavi

i4get75:
Either they didn't work or I didn't know what I was doing.  The first link...that program didn't even recognize the file type.  Tried changing the file type and trying again but got read errors from the program.

None of the links mention file formats ending in mjpg.

nudone:
after experimenting with the file that you sent me, i4get75, the method that appears to work and is free is this...

download 'mplayer 1.0rc1 windows' from this site http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html

extract the contents of the download to somewhere you can easily get to using a DOS command prompt, i.e. extract to a folder called 'mplayer' that is on the root of your C: drive (make sure that this folder 'mplayer' has the contents of the archive directly inside it and not yet another folder called 'mplayer' that then has the contents inside it - this is important for using the DOS commands.)

put the mjpg file you wish to convert into this 'mplayer' folder, i.e. so that the file is with all the other files that were extracted.

when you've done the above...

open a DOS command window - do this by opening the 'run' window in your 'start' menu.

in the 'run' window type cmd and press enter

a DOS window will appear

type cd\ then hit enter

type cd mplayer then hit enter

type mencoder.exe -ovc copy -ofps 12 yourfilename.mjpg -o out.avi and hit enter

this will convert the mjpg file named 'yourfilename.mjpg' to a file named 'out.avi' so you need to change the name of the input file name part in the command prompt above.

this information came from the 'digital video forums' http://forum.digital-digest.com/showthread.php?t=64584&page=2

if this doesn't work i'm unfortunately not going to help much more as it worked perfectly here.

this method relies that you have the correct dos paths and directories in the right place so if you don't understand how to navigate around windows you'll not get very far.

good luck.

f0dder:
Perhaps http://www.virtualdub.org/ could help as well - it's one of those "swiss army knives". But it's been a while since I used it, and I only used it for .avi files and with proper codecs installed.

nudone: (anal mode, sorry) there's no DOS in NT, what you're opening is a shell (in a console window). Again, sorry for being anal, but mentioning DOS in NT irks me a bit :)

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