what’s the difference between DVD, MP3, VCD, iTunes and Windows Media Player?
To start off, DVD and Video CD, commonly called VCDs – are movie file formats, MP3 and WMF are music file formats. iTunes and Windows Media Player are audio and video players. They theoretically play all types of media files. There are quite a few movie and audio file formats. They are different as file types. Ways to create them differ, too. To create a MP3 file from a CD you bought in a store requires a conversion or encoding of the data from the CD to a format the computer recognizes. To create an MP3, you can use Windows Media Player. Insert you store-bought audio CD into your drive and you should be prompted with a menu of selections. The menu is the Windows autodetect feature, triggered by the insertion of any compact disc or DVD media into the appropriate drive. Select Play with Windows Media Player and it will launch that application. Media Player has a tab called Rip, which will convert the audio CD to MP3 or WMV formats. It will automatically name the titles and search an Int
