Playback hassles

I bought a Canon S100 camera last year based partly on its great video capability, but now I appear to have made an uninformed choice. Its video files are exported in .mov format, which plays without audio on my Onkyo TX-NR509 A/V receiver via USB.

The .mov files ALSO play without audio via USB or SD on my Panasonic DMP-BDT220 BD/CD player. Ugh.

The Canon has only one output format (.mov). The video looks great via the Onkyo. Is there some trick I'm missing to be able to play sound for these files on the Onkyo?

(That is, other than paying for a special Canon HDMI cable, as well as an A/C converter to keep the battery from conking out, and then using my tiny camera as a playback device; and other than spending my life watching clunky file format converters make, say, MKV files out of each and every one of my .mov video files.)

Thanks for any input.

Well, it's not a "special Canon" HDMI cable; it's a regular mini-HDMI - HDMI cable; they're available quite reasonably. And one spare battery should be all you'd need to keep you going; you really should have a spare anyhow.

Jon wrote in post #16525040
Well, it's not a "special Canon" HDMI cable; it's a regular mini-HDMI - HDMI cable; they're available quite reasonably.

Jon, thanks for the correction on the HDMI cable. That's encouraging! I looked and Monoprice has a "five star" rated cable for a little over $3!

http://www.monoprice.c​om …&p_id=3645&seq=​1&format=2

I do have a couple of spare batteries. I've found video operations quickly eat up the battery, which I why I had to buy them.

Thanks again for the tip.

If anyone else has tips on how they've dealt with "Life with .mov files" I'd appreciate them.