MOD and TOD - Playing and Editing

Playing and Editing

MOD video can be viewed on a computer with a player that is capable of reproducing MPEG-2 video. This video can be easily authored for watching on a DVD player without recompression, because it is fully compliant with DVD-video standard.

TOD format is comparable with AVCHD, but cannot be directly played on consumer video equipment. Media files must be packaged into distribution formats like HD DVD or Blu-ray Disc, using authoring software. One of TOD recording modes, "1440CBR", has the same frame size, aspect ratio and frame rate as 1080i HDV, and can be loosely called "HDV on disk".

.TOD and .MOD files can be renamed to .MPG files.

What is TOD? The .TOD file format was created by JVC, to be used by their high-definition camcorder range (I.E JVC Everio). The .TOD format is simply an MPEG2 formatted video file. If you wish to view the file on your computer, it is reportedly safe to rename the extension from .mod to .mpg. JVC created the .TOD format due to apparent copyright issues.

The recording media for TOD format camcorder including Hard disk drive and solid-state memory cards. It use MPEG-2 video compression and MPEG-1 audio compression. The video frame size in pixels is 1440 x 1080 or 1920 x 1080 and the video frame aspect ratio is 16:9. The file suffix .tod is marked on camcorder but changed to .m2t while imported to computer. The known camcorder models that use the JVC .TOD format are:

  • 2007: GZ-HD7 (HDD, SD / SDHC), GZ-HD3 (HDD, SD / SDHC)
  • March 2008: GZ-HD5 (HDD, MicroSDHC), GZ-HD6 (HDD, MicroSDHC)
  • June 2008: GZ-HD30, GZ-HD40 (HDD, microSDHC, two TODs and AVCHD recordings)

NOTE: Some JVC Everio cameras save video files with a .MOD extension, which is similar to the TOD format.

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