How to Convert and save DVD to WMV HD for HDTV, Xbox 360, PS3

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Backup DVD to WMV is common with arising portable multimedia players. Then how about DVD to WMV HD, are you catching up with the new high definition trend? With more and more people around talking about DVD to WMV HD encoder, do you curious about what exactly is WMV HD, WMV HD encoder and why DVD to WMV HD?

What is WMV HD and what makes it different from WMV?

WMV HD is Windows Media High Definition Video, and the difference between WMV HD and WMV comes down to its video resolution. Standard definition we usually see has at most 480 visible lines of detail, whereas high definition video has as many as 1,080.

Standard Definition Video	High Definition Video
480p and lower resolution	From 720p up to 1080p resolution for now

Useful Encoders needed for WMV HD

Windows Media Video HD (WMV HD) can be encoded with a variety of programs such as Windows Media Encoder, Windows Movie Maker, and Microsoft Expression Encoder. When encoding, it has been recommended by these programs that you use the original file for best results.

Free WMV HD Demos you can download

WMV HD Content Showcase is what Microsoft Windows Media provided for you to download high definition video to have a try. FYI, Windows Media Audio and Video 9 Series is a breakthrough set of codecs that enables multichannel audio and high definition (HD) video at resolutions up to 1080p.

Why should you convert DVD to WMV HD?

You may complain that the video quality is not as clean as the original DVD after ripping DVD to standard video. For an ordinary DVD movie is often 7-8 GB in size, if we convert them to standard video formats the size would be hundreds of MB, so we have to face the problem that the code compress process would destroy most of unimportant data and the video quality get bad. Then what can we do to resolve this issue? The answer is to convert DVD to WMV HD, for these HD videos are often bigger than standard video and decrease the video damage. Thus, the WMV HD video seems to be lossless compared with the original DVD.

How to convert DVD to WMV HD?

The self-explaining interface allows you to convert DVD to WMV HD within 4 easy steps.

Step 1: Download, install and launch DVD to WMV HD Converter - DVD Ripper software

Step 2: Load DVD, select output format and set destination folder

Click ''Load DVD' button to add the DVD file. You can also click 'Load File' to add DVD/IFO from your hard disk. Then click "Profile" to select "HD WMV Video" as the output format to keep the movies in high definition, so you can play them via HD Media Player such as HDTV, Xbox 360, PS3, etc.

Step 3: Set advanced settings

Click "Settings" to customize the parameters like Bit Rate, Video Size and Aspect Ratio, etc.

Step 4: Start to convert

Finally, click "Start" button to start converting DVD to WMV HD. The output WMV HD files can be found by clicking on the button "Find Target". After that, you can copy these files via USB to your hard drives, and plug in it to HD Media Player like HDTV, Xbox 360, PS3 to enjoy.

And you may see the edit part in this program, yes, it enables you to do simple editing if you need:

So just enjoy your WMV HD video with this DVD to WMV HD Converter.

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Top 10 Free DVD Video Converter...

Many video file formats, so many handheld video players, so many online video sites, and so little time. To have your favorite clips how you want them—whether that's on your iPod, iPhone, PSP or desktop—you need the right utility to convert them into the format that works for you. Commercial video converter software's aplenty, but there are several solid free utilities that can convert your video files on every operating system, or if you've just got a web browser and a quick clip. Put DVDs on your iPod, YouTube videos on DVD, or convert any video file with today's top 10 free video rippers, encoders and converters.
1. Handbrake (Open source/Windows, Mac)
Back up your DVD's to digital file with this open source DVD to MPEG-4 converter app.

2. DVD Shrink (Freeware/Windows only)
Copy a DVD to your hard drive and leave off all the extras like bonus footage, trailers and other extras to save space with DVD Shrink. Download Adam's
one-click AutoHotkey/DVD Shrink utility to rip your DVD to iTunes for skip-free video play from scratchy optical media.
Honorable mention: DVD Decrypter, which Windows peeps can use to copy DVDs to their iPods.

3. iSquint (Freeware/Mac OS X only)
Convert any video file to iPod-sized versions and automatically add the results to your iTunes library. iSquint is free.

4. VidDownloader (webapp)
When you don't want to mess with installing software to grab that priceless YouTube clip before it gets yanked, head over to web site VidDownloader which sucks in videos from all the big streaming sites (YouTube, Google Video, iFilm, Blip.TV, DailyMotion, etc.), converts them for you to a playable format and offers them for download. Other downloaders for online video sites buy you a Flash FLV file, but VidDownloader spits back an AVI file.

5. Hey!Watch (webapp)
Web application Hey!Watch converts video located on your conmputer desktop as well as clips hosted on video sites. Upload your video to Hey!Watch to encode it into a wide variety of file formats, like H264, MP4, WMV, DivX, HD Video, Mobile 3GP/MP4, iPod, Archos and PSP. Hey!Watch only allows for 10MB of video uploads per month for free, and from there you pay for what you use, but it's got lots of neat features for video publishers like podcast feed generation and automatic batch processing with options you set once.

6. AVS Video Converter (Freeware/Windows only)
Rip and burn personal DVDs, convert video, create HD Video, split, join, edit, apply effects.
Convert almost all video formats including DivX, XviD, MOV, rm, rmvb, MPEG, VOB, DVD, WMV, AVI to MPEG-4 movie format for iPod/PSP or other portable video device, MP4 player or smart phone with Any Video Converter, which also supports user-defined video file formats as the output.
Key features: Convert Video between Almost Any Formats, Convert within Minimum Time, Create Movie DVDs, Manage video from HD-Cameras, Convert & Edit Blu-Ray Video, Output Videos to Various Devices, Make Videos Ready for Website, Straight from Disc to PC, Extract Soundtracks and Images from Movies.

7. Videora Converter (Freeware/Windows only)
Videora Converter is a set of programs, each designed to convert regular PC video files into a format tailored to your favorite video-playing handheld device. The Videora program list includes iPod Video Converter (for 5th gen iPods), iPod classic Video Converter (for 6th gen classic iPods), iPod nano Video Converter (for 3rd gen iPod nanos), iPod touch Video Converter, iPhone Video Converter, Videora Apple TV Converter, PSP Video 9, Videora Xbox360 Converter, Videora TiVo Converter, and Videora PMP Converter.



8. . Avi2Dvd (Freeware/Windows)
Make your video files burnable to a DVD with Avi2Dvd, a utility that converts
Avi/Ogm/Mkv/Wmv/Dvd files to Dvd/Svcd/Vcd format. Avi2Dvd can also produce DVD menus with chapter, audio, and subtitle buttons.


9. MediaCoder (Open source/Windows)
Batch convert audio and video compression formats with the open source Media Coder for Windows, which works with a long laundry lists of formats, including MP3, Ogg Vorbis, AAC, AAC+, AAC+V2, MusePack, WMA, RealAudio, AVI, MPEG/VOB, Matroska, MP4, RealMedia, ASF/WMV, Quicktime, and OGM, to name a few.

10. VLC media player (Open source/All platforms)
Ok, so VLC is a media player, not converter, but if you're watching digital video, it's a must-have—plus VLC can indeed rip DVD's, as well as play ripped discs in ISO format (no actual optical media required.) VLC can also play FLV files downloaded from YouTube et al, no conversion to AVI required. Since there's a portable version, VLC's a nice choice for getting your DVD rips/saved YouTube video watching on wherever you go.

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