Turn DV videos into MKV. It is converted in your browser, so the file never leaves your device.
Drop DV files here
or choose from your computer paste with Ctrl V
from Photos or Files
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Drop DV (DIF) files onto the box above, or click it to choose them. ToAny reads the file's contents to detect the type, so a wrong extension does not matter.
Press Convert. Open Options first if you want to change the defaults. The work happens in this tab and can take a while for large files.
Save the MKV, or download everything as one ZIP if you converted several files.
The DV to MKV converter is part of this page and runs inside your browser. Your videos are never sent to ToAny or to anyone else.
Nothing has to travel to a server and back, so work starts the moment you press Convert. How long it takes depends on your device and the size of the file.
No sign-up, no email address and no watermark. Add several files and download them together as a ZIP.
DV is large for its quality and does not open on phones or in browsers. MKV can carry several audio and subtitle tracks in one file. A DV file usually holds DV video (intraframe, about 25 Mbit/s) with PCM audio. DV is at home in capturing and archiving MiniDV tapes; MKV is the usual choice for films with several audio and subtitle tracks.
The defaults suit most files. Under Options you can lower the resolution, trade quality against file size, remove the sound and trim the start and end. This is demanding work for a browser: a long or high-resolution file can take several minutes, and your device does all of it, so keep the tab open.
This pair uses the compatibility engine, ffmpeg built for the browser, because DV is not handled by the browser's built-in codecs. It is a one-off download of about 10 MB that the browser keeps, it is slower than the built-in codecs, and it takes files up to 1 GB.
A .dv file is a raw stream of DV video as captured over FireWire from a MiniDV or Digital8 camcorder. It stores each frame on its own, which is easy to edit but needs about 13 GB per hour.
Opens in Video editors and VLC; few phones or browsers
DV converterMKV is an open container that can hold practically any video and audio format plus multiple subtitle tracks. That flexibility is why it is popular for films, and why Apple devices and browsers refuse it.
Opens in VLC, Plex and many TVs; not iPhones, QuickTime or most browsers
MKV converter| DVDV video | MKVMatroska video | |
|---|---|---|
| Stands for | Digital Video | Matroska |
| Type | Video format | Video container |
| Compression | Lossy | Depends on what is inside |
| Usually contains | DV video (intraframe, about 25 Mbit/s) with PCM audio | Almost anything: H.264, HEVC, AV1, several audio and subtitle tracks |
| Introduced | 1995, by a consortium of Sony, Panasonic, JVC, Philips and others | 2002, by the Matroska project |
| Opens in | Video editors and VLC; few phones or browsers | VLC, Plex and many TVs; not iPhones, QuickTime or most browsers |
| Best for | Capturing and archiving MiniDV tapes | Films with several audio and subtitle tracks |
| File extension | .dv, .dif | .mkv |
No. The DV to MKV conversion runs inside your browser, on your own phone or computer. The file is not sent to ToAny or to anyone else.
It depends on what is inside the DV. When its video and audio are already in a form MKV can hold, they can be carried over without being compressed again. Otherwise they are re-encoded, which costs a little quality. Under Options you can favour quality or a smaller file.
Yes. Add as many as you like, convert them together and download each result or all of them as one ZIP.
The steps are the same everywhere because ToAny runs in the web browser: open this page in a current version of Chrome, Edge, Safari or Firefox, add the DV file, press Convert and save the MKV. There is nothing to install.
Yes. DV to MKV runs on the compatibility engine, which takes files up to 1 GB, and a long clip takes a while because it is slower than the browser's built-in codecs. Beyond that the limit is your device's memory, since nothing is uploaded; a computer copes with large files better than a phone.