DV is the video clip from a digital video (DV) camera; standard format saved to the DV tape used in most consumer digital camcorders; can be imported into many video editing programs. With Aura Free Video Converter you can capture and convert DV to AVI, MPEG, SWF, WMV, MP4 and many popular formats.

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Mini DV and DV AVI

MiniDV tapes can also be used to record a high-definition format called HDV in cameras designed for this codec, which differs significantly from DV on a technical level as it uses MPEG-2 compression.

Most DV players, editors and encoders only support the basic DV format, but not its professional versions. DV Audio/Video data can be stored as raw DV data stream file (data is written to a file as the data is received over FireWire, file extensions are.dv and.dif) or the DV data can be packed into AVI container files. The DV meta-information is preserved in both file types.

Most Windows video software only supports DV packed into AVI containers, as they use Microsoft's avifile.dll, which only supports reading avi files.