BleepingComputer.com: SonyHandycam files saved as wav and mpeg files

On my computer hard drive, I now have wav files and mpeg files that I have downloaded from my Handycam. DCR-SX41

I can see that some of the files are saved as Windows Media Audio/Video files. I did that by accident because I had downloaded some files earlier that wouldn't open (mpeg files), so when I downloaded and while the downloading window was still open, I searched around and did a conversion to wav files.

The wav files open, and I can hear the audio and see the picture. Good.

So, now I have these mpeg files, and with each there are also two small files, and I can't remember the extension. When I click on the mpeg files that are stored on my computer, I get the Player can't open message, and nothing else is offered.

I'm running out of space on the hard drive, I'm going crazy trying to remember which is which, and I think that some of the mpeg files have NOT been converted but I can't figure out how to 1. open to check that I haven't already converted them, and 2. convert them.


Obviously, I only know enough to be dangerous.

Thanks in advance for weighing in.

WMP can open video files, as long as it's the default selection...and the proper codecs are in the system. I suspect that you need to install codecs package.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsme.../faq/codec.mspx

Mpeg files...come as a single file. They do not come in pairs of sub-files, they can be split into audio and video components...but they should not normally be so.

Per Sony, output is SD (not HD).

Post the file extensions involved, please.

Louis