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 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.

A Digital Video Disc, more commonly known as a DVD, is capable of holding large amounts of data including high quality video. Versioned Object Base, known as VOB, is the file format of a DVD.

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 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.

Try the Aplus WMV to DVD Converter to turn your video files into standard MPEG2 Video format and easily burn them to a DVD.

I am hoping that this article has been a help and use to you.