Landro IMF to MPEG Converter

Some of our customers need to use the digital video created in their Landro hardware systems for other purposes: for game exchange programs, or for computer presentations, or advanced video editing applications. For these uses we provide a conversion utility to make an industry-standard MPEG-2 file from your game video files.

Download the utility here:

Instructions

Save the game (or plays) you want to external storage: USB drive, CDROM, etc.

Run the IMFtoMPG program.

Choose the game file to convert by using the browse button ("...") or by typing the full path to the game file. The program displays the size of the MPEG file underneath the file selection.

Choose the location and name for the MPEG file. By default the program uses the same name and location as the game file (substituting the .MPG extension) but you can change this as needed. The program displays the free space on your chosen location underneath the file selection.

When the two file names are correctly entered, click "Start" to begin the conversion. A progress meter and an estimated time to completion are displayed while the conversion is running.

When the conversion is complete, your MPEG file is ready to use.

Notes

Your Landro game file is converted into the MPEG-2 format, the same video standard used in DVDs for high quality compression of standard television pictures. Your Windows computer may not be able to natively play this format in Windows Media Player. If you cannot play the MPEG file you will need to find an MPEG-2 "codec" for this purpose (several options exist on the Internet). However, if your computer is able to play or burn DVDs, you probably already have the codecs you need.

If you need to convert your game to another video format (AVI, WMV, etc.) you may need a video format converter. We do not provide these, and cannot make specific recommendations, but a variety of options are available on the Internet. If you want to burn a DVD from your game files, your DVD burner software probably will accept our MPEG files as they are.

The IMF to MPEG converter will not let you click "Start" if the source file or target location are invalid, or if there is not enough free space on the destination to hold the MPEG. Compare the sizes displayed if you want to see if your program will fit.

High quality video files are very large. Some disk drives are not able to hold these files. There is a file size limit of 4GB (4,294,967,295 bytes) on disk drives formatted with FAT32 or FAT16 for compatability with Windows 95/98 and Windows Me. This limit does not apply to hard drives formatted with NTFS on Windows Vista, Windows XP or Windows 2000; these drives are only limited by the available disk space. If you attempt to convert a file that exceeds the destination drive's size limit, the conversion will stop when the limit is reached; the resulting file will play, but it will end sooner than the original.

If you abort the conversion, or an error causes the conversion to stop, the destination file will be partially written. You may choose to keep the partial video file, or delete it yourself; the converter does not delete incomplete files. Note that an incomplete file might prevent you from restarting a conversion, because there is not enough free space until the previous file is deleted.

This utility is unsupported. If it is helpful to you, great! But we provide it free of charge to our more technically advanced users, and cannot offer technical support.