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Microsoft Windows XP Media Center TV recording
File type: Digital video and movie file
Files with dvr extension can be usually found as old TV recordings saved using the Windows XP Media Center Edition. Seems like MPEG-2 based format.
Found 2 different file type records with the same dvr filename suffix.
File type category:
Digital video and movie file
Date updated: July 13, 2025
Record marked as obsolete and not updated for a long time.
File extension dvr is probably best know for its use in old Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition, which introduced the DVR-MS video format for storing recorded TV content.
It was eventually replaced by the ms by later versions of Microsoft Media Center.
It is similar to ASF format, DVR-MS format uses Personal Video Recorder (PVR) functionality, including time-shifting, live pause, and simultaneous record and playback. Video data are encoded as MPEG-2 video stream and audio data are encoded as MPEG-1 Layer II audio stream.
Some satellite and Digital-TV HDD receivers record TV content in the similar recording format as Windows Media Center and they use file extension dvr for recorded files as well.
These *.dvr files can be most likely played back in any media players that supports old Media Center formats.
Use Freemake Video Converter or similar multimedia converter to transform .dvr files to another file formats.
Software applications that can open dvr files:
Microsoft Windows
Multiplatform
Software applications that can edit dvr files:
Microsoft Windows
Multiplatform
Software capable of saving dvr files:
Microsoft Windows
Multiplatform
Apps designed for playing dvr files:
Microsoft Windows
Windows Media Center
Apple macOS / Mac OS X
Linux/Unix
Multiplatform
Software apps that record to dvr files:
Microsoft Windows
Windows Media Center
Software apps that convert dvr files:
Microsoft Windows
Multiplatform
Software apps that import dvr files:
Microsoft Windows
File type category:
Various data file
Date updated: November 28, 2017
Record marked as obsolete and not updated for a long time.
The dvr file extension is also related to DESQview, a text mode multitasking program developed by Quarterdeck Office Systems which enjoyed modest popularity in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Running on top of DOS, it allowed users to run multiple DOS programs concurrently in multiple windows.
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