DVDVIDEO
DVD-Video
DVD-Video is a consumer video format used to store digital video on DVD discs, and is currently the dominant consumer video format in Asia, North America, Europe, and Australia. Discs using the DVD-Video specification require a DVD drive and an MPEG-2 decoder . Commercial DVD movies are encoded using a combination MPEG-2 compressed video and audio of varying formats . Typically, the data rate for DVD movies ranges from 3 Mbit/s to 9.5 Mbit/s, and the bit rate is usually adaptive. It was first available for retail around 1997.The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: DVD-Video
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