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Originally Posted by sanlyn
Wondershare ......why do people continue to be suckered into garbage like this?
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Wondershare SEO spam google and forums, so if someone googles convert x to x or searches app store for video converter that (or one of their other rebrands) tend to show up high in the result.
Granted I don't know how it's even allowed on the app store since they seem to violate the licenses of ffmpeg, x264 and other software.
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Originally Posted by sanlyn
.MOD?????? Why?
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Presumably from an older camera using SD cards as storage, some of them store video as mpeg2 .mod files for whatever reason.
Just for viewing they can probably be converted losslessly (e.g without re-encoding adding additional compression artifacts) to mp4 file. .mp4 and .mod are "container" formats, like a box that can contain different things, in this case a video and an audio stream. A .mp4 file can contain the video and audio format that is in the mod files, so converting losslessly from .mod to .mp4 would basically be like putting it in a different box.
I don't think either of handbrake, wondershare or quicktime can losslessly convert stuff. They will re-encode the video and add additional compression artifacts. Whatever program you used in your second post seems to not have respected the aspect ratio of the video, and also significantly reduced the quality judging by the mediainfo screenshot. Instead you can use e.g
avidemux. To avoid re-encoding the video select copy under video output and audio output. Runs without issues on macos.
Alternatively, if you are comfortable with the command line, you can download and run
ffmpeg in a terminal like so:
Code:
./ffmpeg -i file.mod -c copy file.mp4
Preparing for DVD will be a bit different, as you may need to re-encode the video and you will need a program to create the DVD structure. They may or may not already be encoded to be DVD-compatible too but it's hard to tell from a screenshot, if so one may also be able to put them on a DVD without re-encoding.
DVDStyler is one free option, that let's you put it on a DVD without re-encoding if it's compatible. Others here may have other suggestions.