DVR-MS video format introduction and related free DVR-MS converter software downloads.

DVR-MS Format Introduction:

DVR-MS (Microsoft Digital Video Recording) is a proprietary video and audio file container format, developed by Microsoft used for storing TV content recorded by Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows Vista and Windows 7.

Multiple data streams (audio and video) are wrapped in an ASF container with the extension DVR-MS. Video is encoded using the MPEG-2 standard and audio using MPEG-1 Layer II or Dolby Digital AC-3 (ATSC A/52). The format extends these standards by including metadata about the content and digital rights management. Files in this format are generated from the Stream Buffer Engine (SBE.dll), a DirectShow component introduced in Windows XP.

The DVR feature of Windows Media Center create files in this format. If a recorded broadcast is marked as copy protected, the resultant DVR-MS file can only be played back on the recording device. Unprotected DVR-MS files can be played back on any device running Windows XP or later Windows operating systems.

Some universal transcoders may be able to convert DVR-MS to other formats. DVR-MS can also be converted to another format changing only the container format (extracting the original MPEG-2 data without any visual loss) using FFmpeg and VLC media player's transcoding wizard.

See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVR-MS

Free DVR-MS Converter Software:

Our free DVR-MS converter software supports converting from DVR-MS, doesn't support converting to DVR-MS.

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Free Video Converter is a free video converter software to convert video files between many formats or extract audio from video files.

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