My son bought a camera that uses the windvd5 program to run his videos - but when he tries to send them to me - I can't open them ! Is there any way to change them so I can view them in Real or windows media or quicktime ??

Please help - He live 2000 miles away and would love to see the videos !

Thanks for any help !

can you tell us more about what format these videos are? what is the file extension: AVI MPG VOB?

Try playing the video with VLC or Mplayer.

I reccomend MPUI (mplayer frontend)

http://mpui.sourceforge.net/index.php

As for converting video try these two free programs:

http://mediacoder.sourceforge.net/

http://www.planetdvb.net/staxrip/index.htm

\VR_MANGR.IFO f Does that make any sence ??

I assume it is a DVD Camcorder because .IFO is a file that corresponds with one or more .VOB files. You of course need the corresponding VOBs that the IFO is pointing to, otherwise nothing will play for you. Unless you and your son have a method of high-speed file transfer setup, it would take a long time to transfer VOB files, depending on how long the video is. Otherwise, he'd need to convert the VOB files to AVI (XviD or DivX) or MPEG before transferring them to you.