Totally Free, Clean and powerful Free MOD Converter For Mac & Win. IMoviesoft Free MOD Converter Mac can convert mod mac to other popular video/audio formats. MOD is usually used on many digital camcorders, such as the JVC Everio, the Canon FS100 and the Panasonic D-Snap SD-card camcorders.
Advertisement So your friendly neighborhood admin has been asked this question way too many times and I have decided to share this information with you here in the hopes that users will Google this issue before asking! Camcorders such as the JVC Everio (pictured below) use a.MOD extension to save their video files. This is very frustrating for a number or reasons. The first reason being you cannot easily read.MOD files in Windows Media Player or many other top tier video applications – many people try hunting for a MOD file converter without success. The second reason that this format infuriates me is that users also have a horrible time trying to get their videos converted into DVD format. Most DVD burning applications do not know what to do with a.MOD file.
And my final reason for hating this.MOD format is that this proprietary format is not proprietary AT ALL! That’s right. JVC and some other well know brands like Canon and Panasonic have decided to just rename the extension of their files. Can you believe that the files are actually standard MPEG2 sound files and thus should be very easy to manipulate, convert and actually watch? The devices we have seen that use this horrible file format are:. JVC GZ-MG30. JVC GZ-MG70.
JVC GZ-MG37. JVC GZ-MG77. JVC GZ-MG50. JVC GZ-MG130. JVC GZ-MG155.
JVC GZ-MG255. JVC GZ-MG555. Panasonic SDR-S100. Panasonic SDR-S150. Panasonic SDR-S10.
Panasonic SDR-H18. Panasonic SDR-H200. Panasonic SDR-H40. Panasonic SDR-H60.
Panasonic SDR-SW20. Canon FS100. Canon FS10. Canon FS11 So now that you have acknowledged your issue, let’s show you the ridiculously simple way (not using a mod file converter) to solve your problem. When you open Windows Explorer and look at your files, they are either unrecognized or you have a program like VLC installed so you can view them. We covered VLC’s awesomeness many times on MakeUseOf. This is what I see when looking at my file on my system after copying it from my camcorder.
But by deploying a little MakeUseOf magic, we do the following. First, make sure you have your Windows Operating System set to show file extensions. You can find this option under Folder Options in Windows Explorer. Then you can rename the file’s extension to be.MPG and make it work.
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You heard me correctly — by simply renaming the file, you will make it work in Windows Media Player or any DVD authoring or burning software just like that! Let’s see it in action: Right click on the file and choose Rename like so: Rename the extension from.MOD to.MPG and then you will see this warning: Click Yes and that is it!
You have successfully converted your camcorder’s video file without any sort of MOD file converter, but instead with a simple rename! Who knew it could be so easy! Did this solve your problem?
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