what format are dvds in for a dvd player
DVD-Video DVD-Video is a consumer video format used to store digital video on DVD discs, and as of 2003[update] was the dominant consumer video format in Asia, North America,[4] Europe, and Australia. Discs using the DVD-Video specification require a DVD drive and an MPEG-2 decoder (e. g., a DVD player, or a computer DVD drive with a software DVD player). Commercial DVD movies are encoded using a combination MPEG-2 compressed video and audio of varying formats (often multi-channel formats as described below). 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 on November 1, 1996 in Japan.