Raw DV to AVI style DV without transcoding?

[Daz_Genetic]

I'm making a DVD of my friend's short film for him. I think he works on a mac using "god knows what" software. He sent me a ton of DVDs with all these big files on them. I figured they were the DV files, but they have no extension.

I can rename them with an .avi extension and they'll play in Media Player, but most of my other programs throw up an error, so it seems they aren't in the AVI format but in a DV raw stream format. I can also open the files in Quictime 7 Pro.

In order to make my workflow as painless as possible, I'd really like to convert these files into an AVI style DV file so that I can use the programs I normally use. If I try to export the file to a DV AVI from Quicktime, it transcodes it (something I want to avoid). I can't open the file in Premiere Pro. It tells me the file is corrupted.

There must be some way of directly converting a raw DV file to an AVI type DV file without recompressing it. Anyone got any suggestions?

[Trollmar]

Try to rename it as .mov ... I sure that they are Quicktime mov's using Apple Dv Codec!

[PT_LAmb]

Enosoft DV Processor can encapsulate raw DV (IEC 61834) files (DV-DIF) into Type I & II DV-AVI files.

Cheers.

[elmuz]

Are you on a Mac or a Windows machine? In case you are on Windows...
A nice alternative would be creating a .bat file which can automatically wrap in AVI all the files in one folder. Try something like this: create a WORKING folder, copy inside ffmpeg.exe and create a text file with this inside:

 for %%a in ("*.dv") do ffmpeg.exe -i %%a -vcodec copy -vtag dvsd -acodec pcm_s16le -f avi -y %%~na.avi

Then rename it in wrapper.bat. Copy all the .dv files inside the folder (be careful there aren't spaces in filenames) and run the bat...
It sounds complicated in theory but it isn't... really...
I use it for all machines which still run Premiere Pro 2.0, which isn't able to read .dv...
Bye

[PT_LAmb]

elmuz, that's an awesome hint.

Although I have already found a solution, it's certainly going to be useful in the future.

Thank you.

[edDV]

If you have a raw dv stream you can't rename to a non existent AVI container.

Listen to PT_LAmb and try Enosoft DV Processor.

elmuz' solution also works but you need to install all the prerequisite apps.