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What are WMV Files? WMV (Windows Media Video) is a all-encompassing name for video encoding solutions developed by Microsoft. The architecture is a allotment of the Windows Media framework that additionally includes formats like Windows Media Audio (WMA), Advanced Systems Architecture (ASF) and High Definition Photo (HDP). WMV files use the Microsoft alembic architecture and represent Microsoft's own adaptation of MPEG-4 (Part 2) video encoding technology. First alien in 1999, the WMV architecture now competes with added codecs such as DivX and RealVideo as a agency of distributing video agreeable on the World Wide Web. Microsoft alien consecutive versions of the codec in the years 2001 and 2003. WMV files are played by the congenital amateur in Windows - Windows Media Amateur (version 7 upwards) - and best third affair video players such as the VLC Media Player, BSPlayer, MPlayer and WinAMP. The .wmv addendum usually describes files in ASF architecture that use Windows Media Video codecs. As for the audio codecs, they're usually versions of Windows Media Audio or the Sipro ACELP.net audio codec. The addendum is sometimes beneath to .wm. Although it's usually arranged into the ASF alembic format, the WMV book can additionally be adapted to AVI, application the WMV9 video compression administrator codec implementation.