WMV means Windows Media Video, which is widely played in many platforms such as PC Windows, portable movie film devices, mobile phones, portable players such as Microsoft ZUNE, Pocket PC, Xbox.

MKV is a common video file defined by Matroska Media, a new multimedia package format. The feature of MKV is that it could hold many types of encoded video, audio and subtitles stream.

To convert wmv to asf, please install the latest Windows Media Player which contains the latest wmv codec.  

Download MKV Converter which can convert wmv to mkv file. Then please install MKV codecs. Select a wmv file, set some parameters such as DivX or XviD as the video compressor,  Microsoft ADPCM as the audio compressor, adjust the resolution, frame rate etc if necessary.

DVD means Digital Versatile Disc. ItÃÔ the successor of CD/LD/VCD and is believed to be the storage technology of new generationÃÔ standards. It adopts MPEG2 Program Stream format to store programs of fixed Length. There are 5 formats for DVD, respectively are DVD-VIDEO, DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-RAM, DVD-AUDIO. After years of technical development, DVD Standard products appear to be far better than CD in whatever technology or sound quality. As the increase popularity of its products, HD-DVD standard of its next generation appears.

MKV Converter does not convert dvd to mkv file directly. Please download Cucusoft DVD to Zune downloader from RegNow, which convert video to wmv, then convert wmv files to mkv.