URL refers to Uniform Resource Locator, which is able to identify a web resource. Thus most of the videos across the web can be found by entering their specific URL at the URL area. WMV stands for Windows Media Video, which is a video compression format developed by Microsoft. As a mandatory video codec for many Microsoft products and devices, WMV do have some merits that worth mentioning. Developed by proprietary technology of Microsoft, it applies non-standard MPEG-4 Part2 since WMV1. Moreover, it is comparable with MPEG-2 in terms of video quality, and even has a higher compression ratio above the standard of MPEG-2. To this end, video saved in WMV format is much smaller than other formats with the same video quality. Thus WMV is pretty popular among users to save storage space.
Generally speaking, online videos can be downloaded from the internet by their unique URL. Nevertheless, for those users who prefer to save the downloaded file in WMV format, how to convert URL to WMV has been an issue that needs quick anwser. Keep reading if you need a solution on converting. And here we go.
Method one: convert URL to WMV by Video Download Capture
The first step: Download videos from the internet
Downloading the video to local discs is step one of converting URL to WMV. You can apply Video Download Capture, which is an all-in-one program that is capable of downloading online videos, converting video formats and transferring video file directly to iTunes.
Video Download Capture is able to download videos from most of online video websites, but the method differs from site to site. There are three ways of downloading on the whole.
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One is to auto fetch the video being played in your browser. There is a Video Detector at the lower left corner of the Video Download Capture main interface. It is on by default. So all you need to do is to navigate to the webpage of your wanted video and it will be detected by the program and added to download within seconds. Videos can be captured from YouTube, Ustream, AOL, and many other sites.
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Or you can enter the video URL at the address bar. After inputting the URL and pressing “Add to download”, a pop-out window will direct you to select your preferred format from MP4, FLV, WMV, WEBM etc. You are able to convert URL to WMV in this way from Udemy, Vimeo, and Youku and so on.
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Another method is to utilize Advanced Video Detector to grab protected videos. Some websites adopts technology to protect their resources from downloading, like the type Ted, Yahoo Screen, My Space, Hulu. You need to paste the video URL at the download area of the built-in browser, which would pop out on clicking of “Advanced Video Detector”.
The second step: apply an URL to WMV converter
Video Download Capture is capable of serve as the converter. Switch to “Convert” tab, import your video by hitting “Add”. Many video formats will be represented at the output profile, hover the mouse over “WMV” and choose your wanted resolution. Set your output folder and click “Start” to proceed conversion.
Other prominent features of Video Download Capture
Besides being able to download and convert videos, Video Download Capture makes further efforts to provide convenience for users. After conversion, you can edit the videos like trim your unwanted parts, crop video area size, and add subtitle. Merge several videos into one is also a piece of cake for the program. If some specific videos is not supported to download by the program, instead you can turn to record it to your computer.
Tips: Here are some tips towards the usage of Video Download Capture. You can download videos in bulk by clicking “Add batch URLs” button for time saving. And it’s up to you to set the maximum simultaneous downloads at “Options”, where other settings such as the default output file folder of downloading, converting and recording can be changed.
Method two: convert URL to WMV online
If you don’t want to install a program, an online app called Apowersoft Free Online Video Downloader is also available. It needs no registration and installation. After accessing to its webpage, you just need to enter the URL and hit “Download”, a list of the video with different formats and qualities will be detected, select your wanted format and right-click to save the video. But if the source video has no WMV format, you need a converter to convert it to WMV.
You might as well try another tool of Apowersoft, Apowersoft Free Online Video Converter. First navigate to its webpage and browse your video file location to import your downloaded video, then choose WMV as output format and conduct conversion.
The combination applying of the two online free app can also be an excellent URL to WMV converter.
