What is the difference between .wtv and .wmv?
- Extension
- .wtv
- .wmv
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Video
- Video
- Developer
- Microsoft
- Microsoft
- Description
- The WTV (Windows Recorded TV Show) file format is used by Microsoft's Windows Media Center to store TV recordings. Introduced with Windows 7 as a successor to the earlier DVR-MS format used by Windows XP Media Center Edition, WTV files allow users to record live television broadcasts or schedule recordings directly through their computers equipped with a compatible TV tuner card. These files encapsulate both the video and audio streams, along with metadata such as broadcast information and closed captions.
- 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/x-ms-wtv
- video/x-ms-wmv
- Sample
- sample.wtv
- sample.wmv
- Wikipedia
- .wmv on Wikipedia