I bought one of these cameras a couple of years ago.

Now I'm not one for spending a lot of time researching and comparing products, I have an inbuilt impulse that forces me to buy something when I like the image the advertisers are portraying ( did I just admit that). This has lead me to be described as a fashion victim on a number of occasions, most notably recently by my Dad when I purchased a new digital camera.
In an anti-nerd kind of way I enjoy doing this, there's more to life than spending hours on comparison and review sites before buying something recommended by an uber nerd writing a gadget blog in an anime tshirt and a pair of y -fronts.
This DVD camera was one of those fashion victim purchases, the TV advert with the bloke shooting video then jumping through a balcony to slot the mini DVD in to a strangers DVD player was just the type of simplicity I was looking for.
The reality was rather different, to cut a long story short, the mini DVDs did not play in any DVD player I had access to except the Sony Picot joke DVD player that came free with the camera. After shooting the video, you have to finalise the dsic which can take about 30 minutes before it plays. The software which comes with the camera is woeful for editing so you tend to burn all your movies straight from camera to DVD meaning that you have hours of great footage of people's feet and the inside of the lens cap.
This got me looking at the files and trying to work with them, a little research showed that the native format is .MPG before finalising. When you connect the DVD camera by USB the disc does not mount to allow quick transfer, so you have to use the crappy Image Mixer software to import the files.
Once imported I tried a few software packages to edit the files, Pinnacle was one, I can't remember the other, both imported the video but failed to capture the audio.
Womble MPEG Video Wizard DVD is a dedicated MPEG editing tool which seems to read the files and allows output to standard DVD. So if you find yourself with an obsolete DVD camera (something I have christened the Betamax effect) I suggest trying Womble.