Any way to create a .THM file for a digital camera to read?

[PetunZ]

I was hoping to use my camera to view .avi movies (Canon SD300). Whenever I make a video using the camera, the .avi created is accompanied with a .thm file. Is there any way to create a .thm file so that I can view any type of .avi in my camera?

 

[indianduddawg47]

how big is the thm file? if it's small, open it up with notepad and take a look around.

 

[PetunZ]

For an 82MB .avi, the .THM file was about 7kb. I've done a search and it seems like it's some form of a jpg or picture file, coupled with an exif(?) file to contain information on the camera make, photo time, etc

 

[majestik]

".thm" files are nothing more than tar archives.

rename blah.thm to blah.tar and extract the files. you can then just edit whatever files you want to modify (jpg, gif, mid, mp3) or just edit the XML directly (with say, notepad). when you're done, just tar the sucker back up, call it bleh.thm and put it on your phone.


if you've got a sony cellphone you can use an app like Theme Creator Pro (http://members.lycos.co.uk/themecreator/) to do all the gruntwork for you.


good luck!

 

[PetunZ]

I tried doing that, and when I try to extract it (via winzip), it says

"Error reading header after processing 0 entries"

Then it opens up winzip and shows nothing to extract.

Any ideas?

 

[majestik]

yeah, don't use Winzip, it doesn't support creating/extracting .tar archives.

i know WinRAR can extract .tar, i don't know if it makes em though.

 

[yacoub]

Aye, try winRAR. Also, it might be the preview image used by the camera's browse feature for video clips? Other possibility is some sort of sync file used to sync the beginning of the videoclip or something.

 

[PetunZ]

winrar doesn't seem to be able to do it either:

"No archives found"

Doh!!