Convert WMV to DVD Player Format on Windows or Mac

Overview

Can DVD players play WMV files? Many of us have been asking the above same question and may also encounter WMV won't play on DVD player troubleshooting. This article just aims to offer an easy solution to successfully play all kinds of WMV files on any DVD player.

Symptoms in Playing WMV on DVD Player

• For WMV DVD disc owners, many of us may encounter cannot play WMV burnt DVD disc on any DVD player.
• For Windows users, we can easily burn WMV to DVD with Windows DVD Maker or Windows Media Center. The weakness is that the burnt WMV DVD disc cannot play on most DVD players connected to the TV or other devices or on the portable DVD player.
• For Mac users, in most cases, we cannot even import and burn WMV files to DVD on Mac let alone to play WMV on DVD player.

How to Solve DVD Player Won't Play WMV Files?

You can't just copy a .wmv file to a DVD and expect your DVD player to play it. In order to solve can't play WMV on DVD player, you first need to know which video format does your DVD player can play and then convert your WMV to DVD player supported format so as to successfully burn WMV to DVD disc for easy playback on DVD player.

How to Convert WMV to DVD Player Format?

Below is the step by step guide on how to convert WMV files to DVD player supported video format on Windows or Mac computer.

This guide also applies to convert MKV, AVI, ASF, FLV, WebM, WTV, MOV, DV, MP4, AVCHD, MXF, RMVB, MPG and etc to DVD player format.

Make Preparation: Run WMV to DVD Player Converter

Free download the powerful WMV to DVD Player Converter - iDealshare VideoGo (for Windows, for Mac), install and run it, the following interface will pop up.

Tips: To convert WMV to DVD player format on Windows, please download the Windows version; to convert WMV files to DVD player supported format on Mac, please download the Mac version.

Step 1 Add WMV files

Click "Add File" button to import the WMV files which DVD player won't play.

Step 2 Set output video format

Click the "Profile" drop down button to select DVD player supported video format as the output format from "General Video" or "HD Video" Category.

Tips:

• You may check the user manual of your DVD player to find the DVD player supported video format.
• DVD player most supported format are "DivX Video (*avi)", "DVD Video(*.vob) ", 'MOV QuickTime Video (*.mov)' or MP4 MPEG-4 Video(*.mp4)
• To play WMV on DIVX DVD player, please select "DivX Video (*avi)" or "DivX HD Video (*.avi)" as output video format

Step 3 Convert WMV to DVD player format

Click "Convert" button to finish converting WMV to DVD player supported video format.

Step 4 Burn WMV to DVD to play WMV on DVD player

Click "Open Folder" button to find the converted WMV files when the WMV to DVD player format conversion is done.

Then just insert a blank DVD to the DVD drive of your Windows or Mac computer to burn the converted WMV files to DVD just as you burn other video to DVD disc, then it is just easy to play WMV on DVD player.