Connecting to your PC
You can read the data on the microSD card in the ThumbCam by connecting
the ThumbCam to your computer.
To do this:
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Locate the mini-USB plug on the bottom of the
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Find a spare USB port on your computer....
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For maximum speed, find a free USB 2.0 port on your computer, and avoid
using USB extension cables or hubs.
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Connect the spare USB port on your computer to the mini-USB port on the
ThumbCam using the supplied USB 2.0 cable.
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The
ThumbCam will be detected as a USB storage device, and can be accessed
in the same way as you would any other USB flash drive.
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The video recordings are stored as an AVI files in folders called
101MEDIA, 102MEDIA, and so on.
If you have any difficulty playing any the recordings from the ThumbCam, we
recommend using a different video player. We suggest VLC Player - this program
is available free for a wide variety of computer platforms and operating systems,
and plays just about anything.
It's available from:
About AVI Files:
AVI is a popular video format, which is highly compatible with most computers
and computer-like devices (such as recent mobile phones and even video game
consoles). AVI is an acronym for Audio Video Interleave, and has been a popular
video 'container' for many years. The term 'container' means that it is a type of
file which holds video data, rather than specifying exactly what kind of video data
it should hold.
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http://www.videolan.org/vlc
ThumbCam.
100MEDIA,