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.

The complexity of the VOB file format is far too great to explain in this article, but the DVD format is essentially powered by a VOB file. Compact Discs, best known as CDs, are quickly being made obsolete by both DVD and BluRay media discs so it’s no wonder it’s becoming more and more popular to convert WMV format 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.

This would likely involve unlocking the DRM protection, and then burning the unprotected WMV files onto a DVD using a DVD authoring tool. Needless to say, it would be nifty if you had a tool which included both functions, i.e. unlocking DRM locked WMV files and then burning them onto a 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.