DVD-Video
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thumb|right|200px|Other logo used from 1997 to 2001 (although some DVDs from 2001 to 2003 and some pirated DVDs made after 2001 still carry this logo) DVD-Video is a consumer video format used to store digital video on DVDs. DVD-Video was the dominant consumer home video format in most of the world in the 2000s. As of 2025, it continues to compete with its high-definition Blu-ray Disc counterpart, while both receive competition as the collective delivery method of physical media by streaming services such as Netflix and Disney+. Discs using the DVD-Video specification require a DVD drive and a
Key facts
- Media.logo
- DVD-Video Logo.svgclass=skin-invert
- Media.logo_alt
- Logo used since 2001
- Media.type
- Optical disc
- Media.capacity
- Up to 8.5 GB (4 hours at typical bit rates)
- Media.released
- (Japan) (United States)
- Media.standard
- DVD Books, Part 3, DVD-Video Book (Book B), DVD Video Recording Book
- Media.owner
- DVD Forum
- Media.use
- Video storage
- Media.extended from
- LaserDiscVideo CDCompact Disc
- Media.extended to
- HD DVDBlu-ray Disc
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24 sectionsContents
- Video data
- Audio data
- Data rate
- Other features
- File system
- Directory and file structure
- Domains
- Container
- Subtitles
- Chapters and angles
- Extra features
- Restrictions
- Content Scramble System
- Anti-ripping
- Disabled user operations
- Region codes
- Programming interface
- Players and recorders
- Competitors and successors
- Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD
- CBHD
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|right|200px|Other logo used from 1997 to 2001 (although some DVDs from 2001 to 2003 and some pirated DVDs made after 2001 still carry this logo) DVD-Video is a consumer video format used to store digital video on DVDs. DVD-Video was the dominant consumer home video format in most of the world in the 2000s. As of 2025, it continues to compete with its high-definition Blu-ray Disc counterpart, while both receive competition as the collective delivery method of physical media by streaming services such as Netflix and Disney+. Discs using the DVD-Video specification require a DVD drive and an MPEG-2 decoder (e.g., a DVD player, or a computer DVD drive with a software DVD player). Commercial DVD movies are encoded using a combination of MPEG-2 compressed video and audio of varying formats (often multi-channel formats as described below). Typically, the data rate for DVD movies ranges from 3 to 9.5 Mbit/s, and the bit rate is usually adaptive. DVD-Video was first available in Japan on October 19, 1996 (with major releases beginning December 20, 1996), followed by a release on March 24, 1997, in the United States.
The DVD-Video specification was created by the DVD Forum and was not publicly available. Certain information in the DVD Format Books is proprietary and confidential; licensees and subscribers were required to sign a non-disclosure agreement. The DVD-Video Format Book could be obtained from the DVD Format/Logo Licensing Corporation (DVD FLLC) for a fee of $5,000. FLLC announced in 2024 that licenses would no longer be needed.