Originally Posted by
rumrunn6
I'd be interested in a small mobile vid cam if it recorded MPG file format instead of AVI so that I could use my MAC or my Windows computers.
Pretty much all of the HD cameras are recording h.264 video. They might be contained in AVI or MP4 or MOV, but that's a triviality that any good video editing software (mac or PC or Linux or whatever) will deal with. AVI (or MP4) is just a box that holds the video, the important part is that the video inside is h.264.
You really don't want MPG - it's a horrible and old format that really can't handle the bitrates of proper HD video. I don't think anyone uses MPG at over DVD resolutions (which are pretty poor by today's standards).