One of my users has a JVC camcorder. It records .MOD files that are not playable by default by Media Player 9 or 11. As a test I downloaded VLC. It does not play them either. But a tip on the Internet ...

Is there a missing codec? If you wonder what is a codec, here’s a little explanation. The word codec comes from Encoding and Decoding. What codecs do is compress and decompress digital media files.