DVS Converter

Extract text from CCTV recordings (DVS)


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

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

Convert DVS to another file type

To convert DVS recordings to another format, you need Teledyne FLIR or other Video software.

Convert a file to DVS

To convert other file formats to the "CCTV Footage" file type, you need software like Teledyne FLIR or a similar tool.


About DVS files

A .DVS file is a proprietary video recording used by digital surveillance systems, most notably legacy DVTel (now Teledyne FLIR) and Honeywell DVRs. Unlike standard video files, .DVS files are often raw H.264 or MPEG-4 streams saved without the file headers or index tables required by standard media players. This design allows security cameras to write data continuously without corruption, but it makes the files unplayable in software like VLC Media Player or Windows Media Player without specific codecs. Users typically encounter these files when exporting evidence from a security system and need to convert them to MP4 for viewing on phones, sharing via email, or submitting to authorities.

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

Users also converted DSV, MP4, VOB and MXF files.


FAQ

If you want to convert DVS file to MP4, MP3, WAV, AAC, FLAC, OGG, WMA, M4A, AIFF, OPUS, ALAC or APE, you can use Teledyne FLIR or similar software from the "Surveillance Video Recording" 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 DVS, try Teledyne FLIR or another comparable tool in the "Surveillance Video Recording" category.



The DVS 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 DVS converter.