Convert Video to WMV format

ConvertToWMV is a free Windows application that converts almost any video file to Microsoft's Windows Media Video (WMV) format. ConvertToWMV provides an intuitive and easy to use graphical user interface for communicating with video processing command line tool FFmpeg. FFmpeg is a free computer program developed by Fabrice Bellard that can record, convert and stream digital audio and video in numerous formats, and is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License or GNU General Public License.

NOTE: When you install ConvertToWMV on your PC, the binary program ffmpeg.exe together with the source code used to compile and build ffmpeg.exe are copied into the ConvertToWMV installation directory. License text and version information for ffmpeg can be found in file ffmpeg-18639-gpl-static-win32.7z. Please visit FFmpeg's web site for more information about FFmpeg.

Convert video to WMV

Getting started

  • Download the .msi installer file to your pc. Open the .msi file and follow the on-screen installation instructions to install ConvertToWMV.
  • The installer creates a shortcut to ConvertToWMV on your desktop. To run ConvertToWMV double click on the shortcut icon.

Using ConvertToWMV

  • Running ConvertToWMV will display a window similar to the one shown above.
  • To convert a video file, either press the Import button to locate a video file or drag a video file onto the ConvertToWMV application window.
  • Processing of a video file is performed by FFmpeg which displays it's progress in a black command window. Conversion of a video file may take several minutes to complete depending on the size of the video being converted.
  • When video conversion has finished, the black command window will automatically disappear and details of the converted video displayed in the "Conversion output" window.
  • To view a converted video, simply double click on the video file name in the "Conversion output" window. A popup media player window will start playing the converted video.
  • To view more options for the "Conversion output" window, right mouse click to display a popup menu.
  • The "Conversion output" window allows converted video files and jpeg files to be dragged to a destination window or application.

Creating a jpeg still frame

Ticking the "Output jpeg frame" checkbox will result in a video frame being captured from the video as a jpeg image. The jpeg image is listed in the "Conversion output" window and can be viewed by double clicking on the file name. The video frame is captured by default at the 1 second position. This time position can be changed by editing ConvertToWMV.exe.config

Changing the output video size and bitrate

By default the converted WMV video has the same bitrate and video frame size as the input video. The bitrate and video frame size of the converted video can be altered by selecting from the dropdown list boxes.