How to Play WMV Files?

WMV files, also known as Windows Media Video Files, are one of the most popular and widely used digital video formats. They were developed by Microsoft in order to facilitate internet streaming and video viewing in PCs. This type of videos can be watched from the hard drive of your computer, or from other media types – even other devices and operating systems. If you want to play a WMV file you will need one of the pertinent media players that support this type of format, as well as codecs, which are usually free and very easy to find online.

How can you play WMV files in Windows?

Since these files were made for Windows, you will have absolutely no problem playing them. While there are about a handful of options, two of them are the best choice for you: Windows Media Player and the freely available VLC Media Player. The only thing you will really need is a video card and sound card, as well as some free RAM and a decent processor that can deal with this kind of files and sizes. In most cases these players come packed with the needed codecs both for audio and video files and formats.

If you have a MAC, you can also easily play WMV files on your device; I recommened you to read this post, there you can find all the details.

You can also play a WMV file in Linux; this system also comes with several media players on board that support the codec for Media Video files as well. Linux usually comes with VLC player an Xine, which can play a WMV file.