{
 "id": "digital-video",
 "name": "Digital Video",
 "category": "video",
 "identifiers": {
  "extensions": [
   "dv"
  ],
  "mime": [
   "video/dv",
   "audio/dv"
  ],
  "puid": [
   "x-fmt/152"
  ],
  "wikidata": [
   "Q3796889"
  ]
 },
 "status": "writable",
 "summary": "The Digital Video file format was developed as a videocassette format in the 1990s by a consortium of consumer video companies and is described in the IEC 61834 series of standards. DV video content utilizes Discrete Cosine Transform compression, but allows for higher quality than formats that use similar compression schemes. DV files can be \"raw\" with the .dv file extension or wrapped into video container formats.",
 "tools": [
  {
   "name": "FFmpeg",
   "url": "https://ffmpeg.org",
   "license": "LGPL-2.1-or-later / GPL-2.0-or-later",
   "open_source": true,
   "reads": true,
   "writes": true
  },
  {
   "name": "Adobe After Effects",
   "url": "https://www.adobe.com/products/aftereffects",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false,
   "license": "proprietary license"
  },
  {
   "name": "Creator NXT 2",
   "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q123202026",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false
  },
  {
   "name": "Final Cut Pro X",
   "url": "https://www.apple.com/final-cut-pro/",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": true,
   "license": "proprietary license"
  },
  {
   "name": "Kino",
   "url": "http://www.kinodv.org",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": true,
   "license": "GNU General Public License, version 2.0 or later",
   "open_source": true
  },
  {
   "name": "LiVES",
   "url": "http://lives-video.com/",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false
  },
  {
   "name": "PhotoRec",
   "url": "http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false,
   "license": "GNU General Public License",
   "open_source": true
  },
  {
   "name": "Pinnacle Studio 17 Ultimate",
   "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q123246373",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": true
  },
  {
   "name": "Q960874",
   "url": "https://www.virtualdub.org/",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": true,
   "license": "GNU General Public License, version 2.0 or later",
   "open_source": true
  },
  {
   "name": "Xilisoft Video Converter 3",
   "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q122229367",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false
  }
 ],
 "projects": [
  {
   "name": "PRONOM x-fmt/152",
   "url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/PRONOM/x-fmt/152",
   "kind": "format-doc"
  },
  {
   "name": "Wikidata Q3796889",
   "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3796889",
   "kind": "wiki"
  }
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "sources": [
   "converters",
   "pronom",
   "wikidata"
  ]
 },
 "updated": "2026-10-20",
 "conversions": [
  {
   "to": "flac-free-lossless-audio-codec-1-2-1",
   "tool": "FFmpeg",
   "command": "ffmpeg -i in.dv out.flac",
   "fidelity": "partial",
   "losses": "Audio track only: the video is dropped.",
   "url": "https://ffmpeg.org"
  },
  {
   "to": "waveform-audio",
   "tool": "FFmpeg",
   "command": "ffmpeg -i in.dv out.wav",
   "fidelity": "partial",
   "losses": "Audio track only: the video is dropped.",
   "url": "https://ffmpeg.org"
  },
  {
   "to": "mpeg-1-2-audio-layer-3",
   "tool": "FFmpeg",
   "command": "ffmpeg -i in.dv out.mp3",
   "fidelity": "lossy",
   "losses": "Lossy audio only: the video is dropped.",
   "url": "https://ffmpeg.org"
  },
  {
   "to": "ogg",
   "tool": "FFmpeg",
   "command": "ffmpeg -i in.dv out.ogg",
   "fidelity": "lossy",
   "losses": "Lossy audio only: the video is dropped.",
   "url": "https://ffmpeg.org"
  },
  {
   "to": "mpeg-4-part-14",
   "tool": "FFmpeg",
   "command": "ffmpeg -i in.dv out.mp4",
   "fidelity": "lossy",
   "losses": "Re-encoded with lossy codecs by default; try `-c copy` to remux without re-encoding when the codecs fit the container.",
   "url": "https://ffmpeg.org"
  },
  {
   "to": "matroska-1-4",
   "tool": "FFmpeg",
   "command": "ffmpeg -i in.dv out.mkv",
   "fidelity": "lossy",
   "losses": "Re-encoded with lossy codecs by default; try `-c copy` to remux without re-encoding when the codecs fit the container.",
   "url": "https://ffmpeg.org"
  },
  {
   "to": "webm",
   "tool": "FFmpeg",
   "command": "ffmpeg -i in.dv out.webm",
   "fidelity": "lossy",
   "losses": "Re-encoded with lossy codecs by default; try `-c copy` to remux without re-encoding when the codecs fit the container.",
   "url": "https://ffmpeg.org"
  }
 ],
 "aliases": [],
 "structure": [],
 "parsers": [],
 "samples": [],
 "claims": [],
 "verification": []
}