wmv
What is a .wmv file?
video/x-ms-wmv
WMV (.wmv, Windows Media Video) is Microsoft's video format inside the ASF container, pairing WMV/VC-1 video with WMA audio. It was ubiquitous on Windows and still appears in legacy corporate media.
How to use a .wmv file
Use an example .wmv clip to test ASF/WMV demuxers, Windows-media players, and WMV-to-MP4 transcoding.
Download example .wmv files
- WMV — Windows Media VideoThe clip as Windows Media Video (WMV2 in an ASF container) — Microsoft's legacy video format. For testing WMV decoding and conversion to open formats.
- Codec — Windows Media Video 8The shared pan-city base plate encoded with WMV2. Windows Media in an ASF container. Long obsolete, but it is what a large amount of corporate and archival material was encoded as, and few non-FFmpeg tools read it. Every clip in this group carries the identical picture, so a decoder-support matrix built from them isolates the codec as the only variable.