DVD-Video是一种消费类光盘格式，用来将数码视频存储在DVD光盘（DVD-ROM）上，现在这种格式在加拿大、欧洲和澳大利亚都占有统治地位。播放该格式的光盘需要一个DVD驱动器和MPEG-2解码器（例如一台DVD播放机，或一台有DVD光驱的电脑配合DVD播放软件）。商业DVD电影常将MPEG-2格式的视频和各种格式的音频（通常是多声道格式，见下述）混合在一起来编码。典型的DVD电影通常数据传输率在3-10Mbit/s之间，同样具有相应的比特率。

DVD-Video is a consumer video format used to store digital video on DVD discs, and is currently the dominant consumer video format in Asia, North America, 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 for retail around March 26, 1997.