avi as a .tmp file? my video is stuck

hello, i have a simple key change video camera which i used to film a police stop in NYC.
when i got home i noticed the file never got saved as the normal AVI file typ eand instead there are two files:
"~idx.tmp" 11kb and "~visual.tmp" 3337kb. i renamed the "~visual.tmp" to "visual.avi" and tried opening it in a couple player softwares (windows medi aplayer and media player homcinema and neither worked. does anyone know anything about video temp files and how to recover such files?
thanks.

Reply 1 : avi as a .tmp file? my video is stuck

I have to write no, I can't help you much with that (for free.)

But will note you should try VLC PLAYER and hope.
Bob

Reply 2 : avi as a .tmp file? my video is stuck

tmp usually means temporary. So it's up to the maker of the camera software to tell you how that temporary file is processed in the camera to produce the usual avi and how you can do that now.

Kees