What is the difference between .m2v and .wmv?
- Extension
- .m2v
- .wmv
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Video
- Video
- Developer
- Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG)
- Microsoft
- Description
- Video only (without audio) encoded using MPEG-2 compression
- A WMV file is a video file based on the Microsoft Advanced Systems Format (ASF) container format and compressed with Windows Media compression. It contains video encoded with one of Microsoft's Windows Media Video (WMV) proprietary codecs and is similar to an .ASF file.
- MIME Type
- video/mpeg
- video/x-ms-wmv