by Frida Mestad
WMV (Windows Media Video) files are files which can be played on Microsofts Windows Media Player. WMV is essentially a set of video codecs developed by Microsoft for integrating a media framework along with its Windows operating system.
WMV files are widely used, but are also most commonly protected by DRM, or “Digital Rights Management”. This should come as no surprise–Microsoft has always been strict in protecting their content as well as supporting their customers with this protection.
You are likely already familiar with DVDs, these optical devices changed the way we store data and view video media. The file format of a DVD is VOB, which stands for Version Object Base.
An explanation of VOB files is beyond the scope of this article, but a study of the software part of the DVD format is essentially a study of the VOB container file format. With CDs or Compact Discs becoming virtually obsolete with the emergence of high capacity storage HD DVDs and Blueray discs, more and more video editing tools are geared to conversion between these two highly popular media formats, WMV to DVD.
Streaming video on the internet is a business fraught with copyrights violations and rampant file-sharing. Its highly likely that video downloaded from the internet will be in .wmv format. And if you want to put together a DVD as a collection of all your WMV files, you need a WMV to DVD converter.
To do this you’ll need to unlock the DRM protection on the WMV file and then burn the file to a DVD using any DVD burning software. It would be pretty cool to find some software that could both unlock the DRM and then immediately burn the files to DVD.
Aplus WMV DVD Converter can do just that, converting footage to MPEG Layer 2 Video before burning it quickly to a DVD.
I am hoping that this article has been helpful and useful to you in converting WMV To DVD.
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