I have a Canon S110 digital camera. When I download video from it, my
computer doesn't recognize it as a file type. I can convert it to AVI,
but my WSFTP program won't post it to my web site. Is there an easy
way to convert the original files and post them to the Internet?

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Request for Question Clarification by blader-ga on 29 Jul 2002 22:44 PDT

Does uploading other files work using WSFTP? Is it only .avi files? Or
only .avi files created by your camera?

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Request for Question Clarification by lot-ga on 30 Jul 2002 01:57 PDT

Hello,

I checked the S110 spec
( http://www.powershot.com/powershot2/s110/specs.html )
and the output is AVI
Can you verify the name of your web hosting company, and if it allows
you to upload AVI files, as some companies restrict video and sound
files like MP3. Or maybe there is an imposed limit on the max file
size which an AVI will exceed.
An easy way to post to the internet is to use a free gallery service
like Imagestation ( http://www.imagestation ) who currently offer free
and unlimited space for your files. Max file sizes for movies is a
generous 40mb and max size for images is 20mb.
regards
lot-ga

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Request for Question Clarification by wengland-ga on 30 Jul 2002 07:19 PDT

Could you please define 'won't post it to my web site'?  Does the
program give any error messages?

One weird thing about Canon digital cameras is that although the
movies are stored in AVI format, the video is actually encoded with
MotionJPEG codec.
I have yet to find a *free* MS media player codec that plays
MotionJPEG encoded avi videos.
Strangely enough MotionJPEG is a Quicktime standard codec.  You should
be able to play the file with a quicktime player.