WMV
WMV stands for Windows Media Video -- developed and controlled by Microsoft.
WMV is a generic name of Microsoft's video encoding solutions and doesn't necessarily define the technology what it uses -- since version 7 (WMV7) Microsoft has used its own flavour of MPEG-4 video encoding technology (not very surprising, it's not compatible with other MPEG-4 technologies..). DivX ;-) video format is originally based on hacked WMV codec.
The latest versions of WMV (now, summer 2005, the latest one is called WMV10) don't have much in common with MPEG-4 anymore, but use Microsoft's own video encoding technologies instead.
If you want to know how to convert .wmv files into other format, we recommend reading through our TMPGEnc XPress tutorial and also visiting our discussion forums for more assistance.
Relevant Guides:
How to play WMV files
Convert WMV to DVD-R using ConvertXtoDVD
Convert WMV to DVD-R using WinAVI
How to Convert WMV to DVD with DVDSanta
Using AutoMKV to create WMV files
Stream videos to Xbox 360 with TVersity without converting to WMV first
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m2v VFAPI plugin for TMPGEnc (Freeware)
This plugin allows using MPEG-2 videos as the video source for TMPGEnc. |
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Media Player Classic (Open source)
Media Player Classic is an extremely light-weight media player for Windows. It looks just like the good-old Media Player v6.4, but has lots of nice extra features. |
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TMPGEnc XPress (Commercial demo)
TMPGEnc XPress is a completely redesigned version of the famous TMPGEnc MPEG encoder |
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