windows video file conversion

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I recently received a cd from a relative of family pictures that could be
played on the computer using (.WMV) format. Is there anyway this can be
converted so it can be played on a video player? It plays fine on my
computer, but not on a dvd player. Any help would be appreciated.
 
orbitor said:
I recently received a cd from a relative of family pictures that could be
played on the computer using (.WMV) format. Is there anyway this can be
converted so it can be played on a video player? It plays fine on my
computer, but not on a dvd player. Any help would be appreciated.
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You have a CD-ROM on your machine and this is CD not DVD I guess?. This why
it will not play on the DVD ;-)

Try to make a DVD from it or burn it to a DVD to be able to play it on DVD
player.
HTH.
nass
 
You'll need a utility similar to NeroVision Express to create a DVD video from
the WMV file.

The DVD video would end up with a folder and files arranged as follows:

\---VIDEO_TS
VIDEO_TS.BUP
VIDEO_TS.IFO
VTS_01_0.BUP
VTS_01_0.IFO
VTS_01_1.VOB

Also, the DVD media used must be compatible with your video player.
 
nass said:
You have a CD-ROM on your machine and this is CD not DVD I guess?. This
why
it will not play on the DVD ;-)

Try to make a DVD from it or burn it to a DVD to be able to play it on DVD
player.
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It is less likely to play as a DVD than a CD because most (but not all) DVD
video players do not support any picture format on a DVD.

I am slightly confused because you say these are pictures, yet .WMV is a
video file format, and I suspect this is what you meant.

DVD video players do not support these files at all. If you really want to
play them on a DVD video player, then you will require a DVD or CD video
authoring package that is capable of importing .WMV files. Check what came
with your DVD burner, because PowerProducer is sometimes bundled and even
the limited OEM version will do what you want. Many DVD burning packages
often come with DVD authoring software as well.
 
David Webb said:
You'll need a utility similar to NeroVision Express to create a DVD video
from the WMV file.

The DVD video would end up with a folder and files arranged as follows:

\---VIDEO_TS
VIDEO_TS.BUP
VIDEO_TS.IFO
VTS_01_0.BUP
VTS_01_0.IFO
VTS_01_1.VOB
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Such a DVD won't play as the last .VOB file has no corresponding .IFO file.
Methinks you made a typo in the file name.
 
Being the lazy person that I am, that listing was simply extracted from an
actual video disc. No typing was involved, simply a copy & paste operation.

I just looked at the structure of 11 DVD ISO files and none of them had
companion IFO files for all of the VOB files.

In all, there was always a VTS_01_0.IFO file but only a few had a corresponding
VTS_01_0.VOB file. Most started with the VTS_01_1.VOB file.

Maybe things are different on this side of the pond (NTSC versus PAL).
 
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