BWV Converter

Extract text from BWV files


Drop or upload your .BWV file
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How to extract text from your BWV file

  1. Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your BWV file.
  2. You’ll see a preview, if available.
  3. Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.

Convert BWV to another file type

To convert your BWV file to another format, you need Bus Wizard Viewer or other Video software.

Convert a file to BWV

To convert other file formats to the "Surveillance Recording" file type, you need software like Bus Wizard Viewer or a similar tool.


About BWV files

A .bwv file is most frequently a proprietary BusWitness Video recording generated by 247Security DVR systems, commonly used for surveillance on school buses and transit fleets. These files are designed for security and chain-of-custody integrity, meaning they are not standard video files like MP4 or MOV and cannot be opened by default media players like VLC or Windows Media Player. To view the footage, users typically require the proprietary Bus Wizard Viewer software, which can play the multi-channel streams and export clips to more accessible formats like AVI.

In engineering and signal processing contexts (approx. 23% of cases), a .bwv file may instead be a Baseband Waveform data file used by Rohde & Schwarz test equipment or MATLAB. These files contain raw binary signal data used for simulating or analyzing radio frequencies and cannot be "played" as video. They must be opened with WinIQSIM2 or imported into MATLAB for analysis.

Convert.Guru analyzes your BWV file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.


FAQ

If you want to convert BWV file to MP3, WAV, AAC, FLAC, OGG, WMA, M4A, AIFF, OPUS, ALAC, APE or WV, you can use Bus Wizard Viewer or similar software from the "Vehicle Surveillance Video" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert MIDI, AAC, TTA, AU, WV, DTS, MID, FLAC, RA, MP3, PCM or WAV files to BWV, try Bus Wizard Viewer or another comparable tool in the "Vehicle Surveillance Video" category.



The BWV Converter Story

The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our BWV converter.