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Hi. I purchased a new DVR card that came with the Ether9808 software. I installed it and everything is going right, works good, seems to be recording and playbacks fine. Everything was going fine until an officer asked me to burn him a DVD video of something that happened outside my property. Fine, I found the video files that ether9808 was recording, it ended with a file extension of *.dvr so I tried to use Nero Burning Rom to create a DVD video as I would with a regular mpg or avi file, but it didnt read it. I can only open it up with ether's player. Since this was a 2 minune clip he needed I used a screen capturing program to capture the frames as it was playing thorugh the player and then saved the work as an mpeg2 video and I solved. But there has been other times that an officer has asked me for a range of hours of videos when I was on time lapse VCR and all what I had to do was scan the tape and dub it at high speed in a matter than in less than 10 minutes I already has a copy of those 2 hours segments into another VHS tape. Now that I wend digital, everything is slower, cant get past real time speed when I need to process videos because I cant find a transcoder to convert every *.dvr files into *.mpg files that my production softwares can understand. Also, I cannot get Ether9808 to stop saving videos under that format of *.dvr I need assistance in getting ether9808 to record directly to mpg format, that all files in my hard drive ends with *.mpg and not with *.dvr that way Nero can process the videos in 20x+ of speeds and I can have my DVD playable disc ready without me having to wait minute by minute to create the compilation. Based on my research online, I found out that *.dvr is some how a proprietary video format used by some dvr card software developers, and different software developers varies in their format and language of their version of *.dvr format. Since I dont need to record in *.dvr format I need to learn how to disable this on the software. Also, my next question. Why Ether9808 picks *.dvr as its default format, is that a way of they making more money off users by sellling them later on addon packs that lets the user do more with its *.dvr files? I can't think of a good logical explanation for this software wanting to record in *.dvr format by default (I hope this can be user changeable). Many thanks!