Camcorder help please

[Jen Red Purple]

Hello, thanks for looking.

I have just got a camcorder and taken some clips of a gig. I can view them on the laptop but when I connected the cc to the tv I couldn't get any picture.

So I burned them to a dvd which neither of my 2 dvd players can recognise.

Then I spent an hour or so googling and looking at forums.

It seems the file extension .mod is awkward so I need to change them to .mpg

I copied one clip and renamed it test young.mpg but in properties it still says .mod - I think only the name has changed, not the extension.

So please can anyone help - there are some sites offering conversion programs but are they safe?

Is there another way to change the file extension of my test clip?

I am on Vista and the cc is a JVC GZ-MG142EK.

Hope I have made sense here! :o

Update - I have read even more forums on these .mod files and incompatibility problems.

Adobe Photoshop Elements can play the files after a fashion - sound but just grey pixels instead of pictures.

I am going to try installing the cc's software next.

Sorted - the cc software actually worked!