Convert video to WMV

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Converting video to WMV is free: drop your video above, hit convert, and download the WMV. Files delete themselves within an hour.

Whatever your camera, screen recorder or download produced, converting that video to WMV gets you a file built for old Windows archives and PowerPoint decks that still insist on it. Flippy reads practically any video format and writes clean WMV: codecs, containers and all the fiddly parts handled for you.

Why flip video to WMV

Video is the heaviest thing most of us ever attach: screen recordings, camera clips, whole talks. It was born in wherever your camera, screen recorder or download came from, and its real weak spot is nothing inherently; every container brings its own quirks.

WMV is a time capsule from the Windows XP years: tidy little files with dated manners. Windows Media Video, usually inside an ASF container; once the backbone of DRM movie rentals. That makes it the right destination when what you need is old Windows archives and PowerPoint decks that still insist on it.

How to convert video to WMV

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Drop your video file into the flipper above, or click to browse for it.
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Check the output format: WMV is already selected for you.
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Hit Convert, give it a moment, then download your new WMV.

video vs WMV, side by side

	video	WMV
Born	wherever your camera, screen recorder or download came from	1999, Microsoft
Type	video · any format	video · container
Best for	any moving picture: recordings, rips, exports, downloads	old Windows archives and PowerPoint decks that still insist on it
Weak spot	nothing inherently; every container brings its own quirks	everything Apple, most browsers, and any phone made this decade
Typical size	anywhere from short clips to multi-gigabyte recordings	small for its era, but modern codecs beat it on both size and quality
Plays on	Depends on the container and the codec inside it.	Windows out of the box; everywhere else wants VLC or a converter.

Questions people ask

Will converting video to WMV lose quality?

Flippy always picks the gentlest path: container swaps and extractions copy your streams untouched, and re-encodes happen once, at quality matched to the source.

Will the WMV file be bigger or smaller than my video?

It depends on the format you pick as the output: lossy formats land a few megabytes per minute, lossless several times that.

Where will the WMV file play?

Windows out of the box; everywhere else wants VLC or a converter. That's the usual reason people leave video behind: WMV simply opens in more of the places that matter.

How long does video to WMV conversion take?

It scales with length and resolution: short clips finish in seconds, long HD videos can take a few minutes. Files auto-delete within an hour after.

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