Burn WMV to DVD
WMV stands for Windows Media Video is one of the most popular video formats used with computers and found on the web is WMV. It plays with all current Windows Media Players, and with other media players such as VLC, Winamp and DivX.
The latest version of WMV is WMV9 and it has high quality compression. Microsoft claims that WMV9 has a compression rate 200% better than MPEG-4 and 15% to 50% better than WMV8.
You can find music videos, TV shows and even full length motion pictures in this format. Since the size of these files is from a few megabytes to many gigabytes, users like to save them on DVDs.
DVD Optical Drive
The requirement a DVD optical drive with write technology. There are different types of DVD recordable media like DVD+R, DVD-R and DVD-RAM. Most optical drives can work with the three types but some may only work with one type of DVD media.
DVD Authoring Software
Most DVD authoring software can burn WMV files to a DVD. Products like Nero 6 Vision Express software, Xilsoft Video Converter, Easy WMV burner and WinX DVD Author. Some are freeware, others are shareware and others must be bought.
Burning WMV to DVD
These authoring products are very similar, so no matter which product you use the same steps are required.
• Launch Software: DVD authoring software has the capability to burn files to a CD ROM so you must launch the software and choose the burn DVD option.
• Load Your Source File: Your “source file” is the WMV File.
• Select Destination and Format: Select the destination of the WMV file (i.e. the DVD drive)Choose Speed and Quality of File: You can choose the speed and the quality of the WMV file that you would like to burn. Some drives can burn at up to 52X but if you have the time, choose a slower speed, such as 10X or 12X, because it ensures quality burning.
• Burn the DVD: Click the burn button and start the burn process. It usually takes less than 10 minutes. When the burning is complete, you will be notified by the software.
• Confirm that the burning of the WMV onto DVD was a Success: Play the file using your Windows Media Player from the new DVD.
