Friday, July 24, 2009

WMV to DVD Burning and Converting Process Explained

By Jeffry Maille

WMV files are video data associated with Windows Media Player. These files are a video codec created by Microsoft for use with their Windows computer operating system.

WMV files often carry a DRM, or digital rights management, protection. This is quite common because Microsoft is a company which tends to protect its content and provides support to users for further 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 hope that this article has been helpful and useful to you. - 23812

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