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We lost the original CD that came with the camera and have been unable to find a copy to install the original program to work with the video files on our new laptop. A considerable time was spent to finally arrive at the bottom line – TOO BAD FOR YOU. Canon provides a 3rd party bundled program on the original CD; said 3rd party provides updates with no problem from their website. Neither the 3rd party nor Canon will provide or offer for a price the ORIGINAL program – just the updates.
On the Canon website, if you dig a bit, they specifically say what the program does. I think this was a weak way to provide information to people without the CD. Basically it CHANGES THE FILE NAME FROM *.MOD to *.MPG. It also ALLOWS FOR A WAY TO START NEW FOLDERS AND FILE THE RENAMED FILES WITHIN THEM. OK, they have just said that if you copy the MOD files to your computer, rename them with the extension MPG and place them in a folder you have started, you will do the same thing as the mysterious 3rd party software without the software bloat of yet another program on your system.
Regarding the name change from .mod to .mpg- on Windows XP, using the native Windows player, make sure you are online when you try to run the first time, a file has to be downloaded. This may also be needed with the newer Windows variants.
Regarding the name change from .mod to .mpg on Apple OSX 10.4, download and use VLC, a fantastic third party player, the native OSX player will not play or find a file to allow it. VLC truly is a neat program that plays many file types, modifies/repairs many unusual AVI files, and is very simple to use.
While looking for the above information, I saw many people complaining about not being able to use 16gb and above SDHC cards. Perhaps trying to simply format them in the camera will solve this. I have two Transcend SDHC cards that work fine after doing this. Above 16gb, I cannot help out, I am not sure if they will work at all.
