MOD Video File?

[foochuck]

Someone sent me an MOD video file for editing. Supposedly it was shot on a camera with a hard drive and then transferred to their computer. Does anyone know what I can use to open and/or convert the MOD file???

[Baldrick]

I tried the hidden search function.... and found https://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=314663&highlight=mod

Maybe a basic mpeg2 editor can help you also, like videoredo.

[foochuck]

Wow! That hidden search function is wicked!!! Thanks.

[Baldrick]

Can you try if you can import the mod(or rename to .mpg) in videoredo? And test if it works fine to save as a mpg?

[foochuck]

I opened the MPG fine. I used VirtualDubMod to save it as an AVI file (with canopus codec). I lost a lot of quality in doing so.

[RLT69]

Did you lose audio as well?

We have a JVC Everio here at work and it stores the movie files as MOD files. You can rename the extension to MPG and you will be able to play them but you will not have audio.

Software that came with the camera allows you to convert the MOD files to MPEG-2 quality format. From there you can do whatever you want. The program was either Power Director or Power Producer; one converts the file the other takes the converted files and burns it to DVD.

cheers.

[foochuck]

I did not lose audio, it played fine in the MPG file in Windows Media Player.

[Baldrick]

Game?

[Budman1]

Many cameras such as some JVC store their video (MPG) with the Mod file type and can be renamed xxxx.MPG and played. The Mod file is usually accompanied with a MOI filetype where the metadata is stored and it is in hex format as follows and can be viewed with a hex editor such as 'HxD hex editor' or pulled by a program and converted. AVISynth Directshowsource will also play them at least on my computer.



Hex offset (zero based) Content Example
00-01 Version 56 36 (V6)
02-05 MOI filesize (bytes) 00 00 01 C3 (= 451 bytes)
06-07 Year 07 D9 (= 2009)
08 Month 06 (=June)
09 Day 1E (=30th)
0A Hour 0B (11)
0B Minutes 16 (22)
0C-0D Seconds in miliseconds CB 20 (52 seconds)
0E-11 Video duration (ms) 00 08 9D 00 (564480 ms, 9 mn 24 s 12 frames)
80-83 Video aspect ratio and TV system Low nibble: 0 and 1 for 4:3, 4 and 5 for 16:9. High nibble: 4 for NTSC, 5 for PAL.
84-85 Audio codec 00 C1 for AC3 audio / 40 01 for MPEG audio
86 Audio bitrate 01 = 64kbit/s (in steps of 16kbit/s) to 0F = 640kbit/s
DA-DB Video bitrate 58 96 = CBR 8.5Mbit / 81 3D = CBR 5.5Mbit
DD-E1 Video duration packets Video duration (ms) (0E-11) * 5A + Video bitrate (DA-DB) (may be incremented with values at offset DA-DB, but may not be for VBR MPEG video)
E6-E7 Video bitrate Same as at offset DA-DB
E9-ED Video duration packets Same as at offset DD-E1
F0-F1 COARSE table entries (zero based) Count of 7 byte packets for coarse table (one 7-byte packet each 10000 milliseconds)
F2-F3 FINE table entries Count of 3 byte packets for fine table (one 3-byte packet each 480 milliseconds)
100 - COARSE table (F0-F1) * 7 byte packets coarse table
- FINE table (F2-F3) * 3 byte packets fine table

[vkmast]

SDcopy

[poisondeathray]

Baldrick bumped a 9 year old thread Hahaha... But I guess he can do whatever he wants

(or maybe there was a post in between that got deleted ?)

[RLT69]

You can use the open source tool ffmpeg to convert mod files to avi format. The command below will convert with the same quality as the source file.

> ffmpeg -i file.MOD -qscale 0 file.avi

[Budman1]

Looks like a clean copy of sdcopy is hard to find these days and wiki claims the files are compressed in Mpeg format already so recoding is not necessary unless you want some other format.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOD_and_TOD



OOOOPs. Low man on totem pole. Must be my slow typing. LOL