Kathy Stielsa

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Windows Media Video, or WMV format files, are digital video files associated with Microsoft’s Windows Media Player. WMV is a video codec designed by Microsoft for their Window’s 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.

It would take far too long to explain all the complexities of the VOB format here, but just know that a VOB is a container file for the data stored on a DVD. DVDs, as well as BlueRay media discs, have practically made the CD an obsolete device, it’s because of this that more programs are now focused on burning video files 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 will first need to unlock the DRM protection on the WMV, and then burn the newly unprotected file onto a DVD with some sort of DVD creation software. It would certainly be convenient if a piece of software included both the ability to unlock DRM from a file and to burn it to DVD.

The Aplus WMV to DVD converter will take convert of footage from multiple movies and episodic files to standard MPEG2 Video and burn it into a DVD seamlessly.

I hope that this article has been helpful and useful to you.