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How to Convert DVD Movies for Playback in Windows Media Player

Windows Media Player is used for playing audio, video and viewing images on personal computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system, as well as on Pocket PC and Windows Mobile-based devices. Windows Media Player accepts video file formats such as avi, wm, wmv, asf, mpg, etc.

In this guide, I will show you how to convert DVD to Windows Media Player supported video format using Clone2Go DVD Ripper so that you will be able to play DVD movies in your Windows Media Player. Now, let's take a look at how it performs:

Import DVD Movies

Insert the DVD disc into the disc drive, click the "Open DVD" button to import it. Or if the DVD movie is saved as a folder on your computer, you need to click the "Add Video" button to locate that folder, which is composed of two separate folders: VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS. From the VIDEO_TS folder, select the .vob file to import and then click "OK".

Convert DVD to Windows Media Player

Choose Output Format

Extend the "Profile" menu. From the drop-down list, navigate to the "WMV Video" category. From the sub-category, Choose "Microsoft WMV Movie (*.wmv)" as the output format.

Play DVD in Windows Media Player

Start to Convert

Now you can click the "Start Encode" button to starting converting DVD for playback with Windows Media Player.

Note: The output video files are easily available by clicking the "Folder" button on the main menu after the conversion process is done.

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