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How to Convert DVD to WMV?

Why Rip DVD to WMV?

DVD playing plays an important part in our entertainment, if you have a lot of movies of fun, astonishing or romantic on your DVDs, you must want to play it to make your entertainment more colorful. Meanwhile, WMV is one of the lowest memory-consuming video formats, so if you would love to save and play your video files on WMV, this tutorial will show you the step by step guide on how to convert DVD to WMV.

So how to convert DVD to WMV is not a question any more if you choose a best DVD ripper to convert DVD to WMV. SnowFox DVD to WMV Converter could convert DVD to WMV and rip DVD to WMV with fast conversion speed and good output video quality.

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Easy Steps on How to Rip DVD to WMV

To easily play DVD movie on most mobiles, you need to download a professional DVD Ripper, such as SnowFox DVD & Video Converter which could convert any video to WMV and rip dvd to WMV. Here let me take SnowFox DVD Riper as an example which could rip DVD to WMV.

Run DVD to WMV converter and Import DVD

Install and Launch DVD to WMV Ripper. Then click the "Add DVD" to add the source dvd you want to import to the program. In addition, this Video Converter not only can convert common DVD movie to WMV, but also could convert protected DVDs to WMV.

Import DVD to DVD to WMV Converter

Important: If your DVD is protected by many titles, just tick " Run Enhanced DVD Analysis" to search vaild titles. As far as i know, if you try other DVD Rippers, you have to play this kind of DVDs and record the main movie's title, then choose that title to rip. Such as Cloudy with a Chance of Meatball imported to DVD Ripper above which has 25 titles. But SnowFox DVD Ripper could choose the main title automatically, it will save much time for you. And this is the essential difference between SnowFox DVD Ripper and other dvd ripper software.

Main title search: Only main titles will be added to the conversion list (usually one or two), and other titles will be ignored.

Full title search: All useful titles will be searched and added to the conversion list. These titles includes main titles, advertisements, etc. Of course, it will take more time to find all right titles.

Here i choose 'Full titles search', SnowFox DVD Ripper will choose the useful title for you automatically.

import protected DVD to DVD to WMV Converter

Customize output Settings

The key point to convert DVD to WMV is choose the suitable output format as your need. Here you could select "WMV - Windows Media Video (*.wmv)" as the output format from the drop-down list. Before you start coversion, click "Browse..." button to choose the output path to save the converted files. This DVD to WMV Converter could convert DVD to AVI, MPEG, WMV, MKV, MOV, XviD, 3GP, FLV and more. And it is available to reset the parameters as your own need.

DVD to WMV Ripper - Choose WMV as the Output Format

Start the Conversion

Once everything has been selected, click "Start" button to begin the conversion, then done! During the converison you could just have a coffee or take a nap, and the conversion may have been finished when you come back.

That's it, with 3 steps you can Convert DVD to WMV video format. You could enjoy the converted WMV file on PC. And the conversion speed often depends on the original DVD and your PC configuration. The conversion speed and output quality is great and it will meet most people requirement. Generally speaking, it is worth to use SnowFox DVD Ripper to convert your DVD to WMV.

Tips:

1. Trim the DVD
Before click convert button to convert DVD to WMV, it's available to convert DVD by title, trim DVD to reserve the part you need. Just choose the chapter which you need to trim, to set "start time" or "end time", type the portion which you want to save.

2. Benefits of this DVD to WMV Converter

This DVD to WMV converter is also compatible with iPad, iPod, iPhone, Apple TV, Andriod Phone, PMP, BlackBerry, Zune, Snoy PSP, Sony PS3, etc. You can choose the suitable format as your own needs.

3. Convert DVD to Other Video Format

What's more, you can also convert your DVD movie to avi, 3gp, flv, m4v, mkv, mpeg-1, mpeg-2, wmv, mov, Xivd, Divx, flv, mkv, even HD AVI Video (*.avi), HD WMV Video (*.wmv), HD MPEG-4 Video (*.mp4), HD MPEG-2 Video (*.mpg), HD H.264/AVC Video (*.mp4), etc.

Related Knowledge

What is WMV?

Windows Media Video (WMV) is a compressed video file format for several proprietary codecs developed by Microsoft. The original codec, known as WMV, was originally designed for Internet streaming applications, as a competitor to RealVideo.

What is DVD?
DVD stands for Digital Versatile/Video Disc, DVDR stands for DVD Recordable and DVDRW for DVD ReWriteable. If you're familiar with regular audio/music CDs or regular DVD-Video discs, then you will know what a recordable DVD looks like. A recordable DVD stores up to 2 hours of very good quality DVD-Video, including several audio tracks in formats like stereo, Dolby Digital or DTS and also advanced menu systems, subtitles and still pictures that can be played by many standalone DVD Players and most computer DVD-ROMs. If you choose to lower the video quality it is possible to store several hours video on a recordable DVD using low bitrates and low resolution with video quality more like VHS, SVHS, SVCD, CVD or VCD.

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