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.
