- Extension
- .wmv
- .vips
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Video
- Raster Image
- Developer
- Microsoft
- VIPS (Visual Information Processing System)
- Description
- 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.
- VIPS is a libvips file format mainly used for calculations, but it can also store images. The main advantage is that it has no size limit; it's fast and straightforward. Nonetheless, most applications can't view it, so converting it to a more popular format is the only way to work around it.
- MIME Type
- video/x-ms-wmv
- image/vnd.vips
