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Regarding the miniDV-AVIs from this post: http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=...pid2372251
ffmpeg is totally capable of decoding CVSD and DVSD. Not MSDV however, maybe I was mistaken about that or that FourCC is just used for type1-AVIs.
I'm testing a standalone ffmpeg version for Windows and the video stream is detected as "dvvideo":

Code:

C:\dv>C:\prg\ffmpeg.x64\bin\ffmpeg -i sample_dvsd.avi -vcodec h264 output_dvsd.avi
ffmpeg version N-75716-g061b67f Copyright (c) 2000-2015 the FFmpeg developers
  built with gcc 5.2.0 (GCC)
  configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --disable-w32threads --enable-avisynth --enable-bzlib --enable-fontconfig --enable-frei0r --enable-gnutls --enable-iconv --enable-libass --enable-libbluray --enable-libbs2b --enable-libcaca --enable-libdcadec --enable-libfreetype --enable-libgme --enable-libgsm --enable-libilbc --enable-libmodplug --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libopus --enable-librtmp --enable-libschroedinger --enable-libsoxr --enable-libspeex --enable-libtheora --enable-libtwolame --enable-libvidstab --enable-libvo-aacenc --enable-libvo-amrwbenc --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx --enable-libwavpack --enable-libwebp --enable-libx264 --enable-libx265 --enable-libxavs --enable-libxvid --enable-lzma --enable-decklink --enable-zlib
  libavutil      55.  2.100 / 55.  2.100
  libavcodec     57.  4.100 / 57.  4.100
  libavformat    57.  2.102 / 57.  2.102
  libavdevice    57.  0.100 / 57.  0.100
  libavfilter     6.  9.101 /  6.  9.101
  libswscale      4.  0.100 /  4.  0.100
  libswresample   2.  0.100 /  2.  0.100
  libpostproc    54.  0.100 / 54.  0.100
Guessed Channel Layout for  Input Stream #0.1 : stereo
Input #0, avi, from 'sample_dvsd.avi':
  Duration: 00:00:10.00, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 30353 kb/s
    Stream #0:0: Video: dvvideo (dvsd / 0x64737664), yuv420p, 720x576 [SAR 16:15 DAR 4:3], 28915 kb/s, 25 fps, 25 tbr, 25 tbn, 25 tbc
    Stream #0:1: Audio: pcm_s16le ([1][0][0][0] / 0x0001), 48000 Hz, 2 channels, s16, 1536 kb/s
[libx264 @ 0000020db46a1700] using SAR=16/15
[libx264 @ 0000020db46a1700] using cpu capabilities: MMX2 SSE2Fast SSSE3 SSE4.2 AVX
[libx264 @ 0000020db46a1700] profile High, level 3.0
Output #0, avi, to 'output_dvsd.avi':
  Metadata:
    ISFT            : Lavf57.2.102
    Stream #0:0: Video: h264 (libx264) (H264 / 0x34363248), yuv420p, 720x576 [SAR 16:15 DAR 4:3], q=-1--1, 25 fps, 25 tbn, 25 tbc
    Metadata:
      encoder         : Lavc57.4.100 libx264
    Stream #0:1: Audio: mp3 (libmp3lame) (U[0][0][0] / 0x0055), 48000 Hz, stereo, s16p
    Metadata:
      encoder         : Lavc57.4.100 libmp3lame
Stream mapping:
  Stream #0:0 -> #0:0 (dvvideo (native) -> h264 (libx264))
  Stream #0:1 -> #0:1 (pcm_s16le (native) -> mp3 (libmp3lame))
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frame=  250 fps= 81 q=-1.0 Lsize=    7587kB time=00:00:10.00 bitrate=6210.5kbits/s
video:7405kB audio:157kB subtitle:0kB other streams:0kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead: 0.338777%
[libx264 @ 0000020db46a1700] frame I:1     Avg QP:26.76  size: 71606
[libx264 @ 0000020db46a1700] frame P:127   Avg QP:27.70  size: 46351
[libx264 @ 0000020db46a1700] frame B:122   Avg QP:30.89  size: 13315
[libx264 @ 0000020db46a1700] consecutive B-frames:  2.4% 97.6%  0.0%  0.0%
[libx264 @ 0000020db46a1700] mb I  I16..4:  0.4% 91.7%  7.8%
[libx264 @ 0000020db46a1700] mb P  I16..4:  0.3%  9.1%  0.4%  P16..4: 40.0% 28.3% 20.5%  0.0%  0.0%    skip: 1.4%
[libx264 @ 0000020db46a1700] mb B  I16..4:  0.0%  0.0%  0.0%  B16..8: 24.4%  6.9%  3.7%  direct:31.6%  skip:33.4%  L0:31.9% L1:26.2% BI:42.0%
[libx264 @ 0000020db46a1700] 8x8 transform intra:92.1% inter:63.9%
[libx264 @ 0000020db46a1700] coded y,uvDC,uvAC intra: 92.5% 70.1% 8.3% inter: 62.7% 24.0% 0.5%
[libx264 @ 0000020db46a1700] i16 v,h,dc,p: 33% 34% 15% 18%
[libx264 @ 0000020db46a1700] i8 v,h,dc,ddl,ddr,vr,hd,vl,hu:  7% 26% 29%  3%  5%  3% 10%  4% 13%
[libx264 @ 0000020db46a1700] i4 v,h,dc,ddl,ddr,vr,hd,vl,hu:  7% 45% 16%  3%  4%  3%  8%  3% 11%
[libx264 @ 0000020db46a1700] i8c dc,h,v,p: 63% 22% 12%  3%
[libx264 @ 0000020db46a1700] Weighted P-Frames: Y:56.7% UV:25.2%
[libx264 @ 0000020db46a1700] ref P L0: 50.1% 15.5% 15.1% 14.1%  5.2%
[libx264 @ 0000020db46a1700] ref B L0: 77.7% 22.3%
[libx264 @ 0000020db46a1700] kb/s:6066.10