Convert WMV to MP3

Converting one file format to another may be necessary for various reasons. So, for example, you may want to convert WMV to MP3 if your computer, phone or other device does not support WMV format. Also, conversion is often required to reduce the file size, since the original format takes up too much space in the device's memory. Perhaps you just need to extract the audio track from the video file, in which case converting the video to audio format is a good option. In any case, with the help of our converter, you can easily complete the required task. Below you can find out some details about the original and new file formats.

The abbreviation WMV stands for Windows Media Video. A similar extension can be seen in video files - you need a player that supports this format to view them. Video format wmv (Windows Media Video) - the format was born thanks to Microsoft. A video file based on the Microsoft Advanced Systems Format (ASF) container format and compressed using Windows Media Compression. It is similar to the .ASF file and contains video encoded using one of Microsoft's native Windows Media Video (WMV) codecs. It contains audio, video, or mixed recordings packed using the Windows Media Audio codecs (WMA is a special kind of format designed exclusively for storing audio files) and Windows Media Video (WMV). It was developed mainly for storage and possible broadcast of video information. In addition to Windows, this format is also supported by other operating systems, if the appropriate codecs are installed. Also, WMV has become widespread among portable playback devices. Almost all computers should play this format, since codecs for WMV are usually installed with Windows, so such files should be opened by many players. When choosing a suitable program, you need to be guided by the ease of use and the availability of additional functions.

MP3 (formally MPEG-1 Audio Layer III or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III) is an encoding format for digital audio developed primarily by the Fraunhofer Society in Germany with support from other digital scientists in the United States and other countries. Today, most of the audio recordings that a person listens to almost every day are presented in the form of universal MP3 files, since they are the most common and demanded in terms of the format for storing audio information. MP3 format is a streaming format. This means that data transmission occurs as a stream of independent separate data blocks - frames. For this, the original signal during encoding is divided into sections of equal duration, called frames and encoded separately. When decoding, the signal is formed from a sequence of decoded frames. Unlike conventional archivers, which need to manage to compress information in such a way that not a single bit is changed in it after extraction from the archive, MP3 serves somewhat different purposes. In addition to mathematical compression algorithms, this format also contains the most complex algorithm for removing unnecessary audio information, based on the psychological and physiological characteristics of the human body.