What is the difference between .swf and .wmv?
- Extension
- .swf
- .wmv
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Video
- Video
- Developer
- Adobe Systems
- Microsoft
- Description
- An SWF file is an animation created with Adobe Flash that can be played by Flash Player or with a web browser that has the Flash plugin installed. It may contain text, vector and raster graphics, and interactive content written in ActionScript.
- 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
- application/x-shockwave-flash
- video/x-ms-wmv
- Sample
- sample.swf
- sample.wmv
- Wikipedia
- .swf on Wikipedia
- .wmv on Wikipedia