Convert DVR-MS to AVI with Five Effective DVR-MS to AVI Converters

You might get some DVR-MS video files in hand and want to share them with your friends or relatively. Most of you might have little knowledge of DVR-MS. Actually, DVR-MS is short for Microsoft Digital Video Recording. It is a proprietary video and audio file container format developed by Microsoft to mainly store TV content recorded by Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows Vista and Windows 7. As DVR-MS files can only be played by the recording device, and the unprotected DVR files cannot be supported by some common programs like Windows Movie Maker, to share DVR-MS files, you can convert DVR-MS to AVI as AVI is quite popular and widely supported by most common videos sites and players. Here you can find 5 solutions to convert DVR-MS to AVI. At the same time, you can convert DVR-MS to MP4.

Part 1: Convert DVR-MS to AVI with Leawo Video Converter

The first professional DVR-MS to AVI video converter I will introduce here is Leawo Video Converter. Considered as the best video converting program, it is highly recommended to convert DVR-MS to MP4 format. Having an easy-to-use interface, this video converter requires no expertise to operate video conversion, which means even software green hand can operate this video converter at great ease. Better than any other free DVR-MS to AVI converter, Leawo Video Converter is able to convert video files at 6 times faster speed. The input and output support a great variety of formats such as Common Video (MP4, H.265 MP4, MKV, H.265 MKV, MOV, etc.), HD Video (HD MP4, HD AVI, HD TS, HD VOB, etc.), and 4K Video (4K MP4 and 4K MKV). At the same time, Leawo Video Converter supports audio input and output as well, including AAC, AC3, WAV, MP3, WMA, FLAC, etc. In other words, we can use Leawo Video Converter to extract audio file from video file, and to convert audio file from one format to another. This video converting program supports altogether 11 languages (English, German, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Russian, Hungarian, Armenian, Spanish, French, Portuguese and Dutch). More amazingly, users are allowed to freely add subtitles and select audio track for keeping in the output video files.

Not limited to Windows version, Leawo software team also develops the Mac counterpart of Leawo Video Converter for operating on Mac system. Download and install the right version of Leawo Video Converter based on the operating system on your computer. As the conversion process is nearly the same regardless of version of Leawo Video Converter, here we take Windows version of Leawo Video Converter as an example to convert DVR-MS to AVI.

Step 1. Import Source DVR-MS Video File

Launch Leawo Video Converter, go to the "Convert" tab, and click "Add Video" button on the sub-menu to load your source DVR-MS video file. Alternatively, you can directly drag and drop DVR-MS video file into the program interface. After DVR-MS video file is imported, you could play back the video file, select subtitles and audio tracks from the source video file, add external subtitles to the loaded video file, edit the loaded video file, etc.

Step 2. Set AVI as Output Format

Click the drop-down box named "MP4 Video" by default next to the "Add Photo" button. On the drop-down list, select "Change" option.

Then on the popup Profile window, select "AVI" from "Format" column as output format. Please note that once you change the output format, the name of the drop-down box will change as well.

Note: If you need, you could click the "Edit" button on the drop-down profile setting box to adjust video and audio parameters like video codec, aspect ratio, frame rate, resolution, audio codec, bit rate, channel, sample rate, etc. After editing job is done, click "OK" to return to the main interface.

Step 3. Convert DVR-MS to AVI

Click the big green "Convert" button on the sub-menu bar next to the format setting drop-down box. Then, on the popup sidebar, set output directory. After setting output directory, click the "Convert" button right below. Leawo Video Converter would start to convert DVR-MS to AVI. After the conversion process is finished, you can find the converted file in AVI format in the output folder you just set.

Note: Leawo Video Converter is equipped with an internal video editor, which means you can edit video after you import source video files. There are many ways allowable for you to edit loaded video files: video trimming, cropping, watermarking, adjusting video effect and removing noise.

Part 2: Convert DVR-MS to AVI with Prism Video Converter

The second video converter is Prism Video Converter which is the most stable and comprehensive multi-format video converter available and is very easy to use. As a fast and easy-to-use video converting program, Prism Video Converter requires only three easy steps to finish video format conversion from one format to another format: import your video file, choose a video format from a wide variety of video formats that you want to convert your file to, and hit the convert button. Check out the detailed guide below to convert DVR-MS to AVI with Prism Video Converter.

Step 1. Import Source DVR-MS Video File

Click "Add File" at the top left menu bar to choose and import source DVR-MS video file.

Step 2. Choose AVI as Output Format

Under "Output Format" button, browse and choose "AVI" as output format in order to convert DVR-MS to AVI.

Step 3. Choose Output Folder and Start to Convert

Browse and set an output folder before you click "Convert" button. After a while, you will get a converted file in the output folder you just set.

Part 3: Convert DVR-MS to AVI with Handbrake

Handbrake supports video conversion to convert any video files into different formats. For example, you can convert a file in DVR-MS format into AVI with Handbrake on Mac or Windows. Here let’s start to convert DVR-MS to AVI with Handbrake.

Please note that some degree of picture quality may lose when converting one video format to a different video format with the help of Handbrake.

Step 1: Import DVR-MS into Handbrake

Launch Handbrake on your Mac or computer, and then click "Open Source" in the menu bar to choose and import source DVR-MS video file into Handbrake.

Step 2: Set AVI as Output Format

Open the "Format" drop-down menu and select AVI as output format in order to convert DVR-MS to AVI.

Step 3: Start to convert DVR-MS to AVI

Before DVR-MS to AVI conversion process, you can choose the output directory to contain a converted video file. Click "Start Encode" button at the top of the window to convert the source DVR video into the selected AVI format.

Part 4: Convert DVR-MS to AVI with CloudConvert

The fourth converter I will use is CloudConvert. Unlike these three previous converters, CloudConvert is an online video converter, and it claims that it can convert anything to anything on its official website. Of course, we can use it to convert DVR-MS to AVI. Most importantly, this service is totally free of charge.

Step 1. Choose "Select Files"

On the official website of CloudConvert, choose "Select Files" to choose and import target DVR-MS file into the converter interface.

Step 2. Choose AVI as Output Video Format

Choose Video, and then AVI as the output video format.

Step 3. Start Conversion

You need to click "Start Conversion" at the bottom right to start the conversion process, at the same time you can tick "Notify me when it is finished" and choose to "Save file to my Dropbox/Google Drive, etc." After that, you can download and get converted result on your computer.

Part 5: Convert DVR-MS to AVI with FileZigZag

The fifth one is also an online solution with the help of FileZigZag, which supports thousands of types of unit conversions, making it easy for users to reach a one-stop-shop without having to jump from one location to another. Here we convert DVR-MS to AVI with FileZigZag.

Step 1. Import Source DVR-MS Video File into FileZigZag

The interface of the web page is very simple. The first bar is for you to import file. Here, we choose to import the pre-prepared DVR-MS video file.

Step 2. Choose AVI as Output Video Format

Click the drop-down box under "Convert to", and you need to select AVI as the output video format in order to convert DVR-MS to AVI.

Step 3. Input Your Email Address and Start to Convert

In the third bar, you need to input your email address, and then click "Convert" in the fourth bar. After a while, the converted result will be sent to your email box. That’s it, and you will get the converted result in AVI video format.