Add your WMV file
Drop one or more .wmv files onto the converter above, or browse for them. They load into browser memory only — nothing is uploaded, so there is no size-based pricing and no server queue.
WMV to DIVX
Pulling the soundtrack out of a .wmv video into .divx audio keeps what you can hear and drops the picture entirely. Free, private, and validated — the file never leaves your browser.
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Drop WMV files here
Batch files can each use a different output. Nothing uploads for local conversions.
Working inputs include camera RAW, browser-local audio/video, PDF, CBZ/CBR comics, office documents, ebooks, markup, 3D models, structured text, images, and archives.About converting Windows Media video to DivX video
Pulling the soundtrack out of a .wmv video into .divx audio keeps what you can hear and drops the picture entirely. A .wmv file contains Windows Media Video, Microsoft's proprietary codec family, almost always wrapped in an ASF container. The extension was everywhere on Windows XP-era PCs, from downloaded clips to Movie Maker exports, but it has faded as MP4 became universal.
A .divx file is video packaged for the DivX ecosystem: an AVI-derived container carrying MPEG-4 Part 2 video compressed with the DivX codec. The extension appeared on rips and downloads throughout the 2000s, when DivX certification logos on DVD players promised these files would play from burned discs. For this route the practical draw is decodes with any MPEG-4 Part 2 decoder, including ffmpeg and VLC and considerably better compression than the DVD MPEG-2 it typically replaced — balanced against obsolete next to H.264 and H.265, needing more bits for the same quality, which is worth knowing before you commit a large batch.
Why convert WMV to DIVX?
The usual reason to take .divx audio out of a .wmv file is that only the sound matters — a talk, interview, song, or podcast segment. Keeping the video stream would waste storage, and a dedicated audio file is easier to trim, tag, and play. On the source side, effectively abandoned by Microsoft itself; on the target side, the payoff is decodes with any MPEG-4 Part 2 decoder, including ffmpeg and VLC, which is exactly what you want for playing movie archives from the 2000s downloading era.
WMV vs DIVX at a glance
| Aspect | Windows Media video (.wmv) | DivX video (.divx) |
|---|---|---|
| Format type | Container — quality depends on the codecs and settings inside | Container — quality depends on the codecs and settings inside |
| How it stores data | aSF container carrying WMV1, WMV2, or WMV3 (VC-1) video, typically with WMA audio | aVI-compatible RIFF layout extended by the DivX Media Format with menus, chapters, and XSUB bitmap subtitles |
| Strongest at | playing old Movie Maker projects and family archives | playing movie archives from the 2000s downloading era |
| Weak spot | effectively abandoned by Microsoft itself | obsolete next to H.264 and H.265, needing more bits for the same quality |
| Metadata | aSF content-description attributes hold title, author, copyright, and rating fields, plus extended attributes used by Windows Media Player libraries | inherits RIFF INFO tags from AVI, plus DivX-specific chapter and menu structures in Media Format files |
Pick DIVX as the output
Select .divx in the output menu next to each file. The menu only offers targets this engine can genuinely produce, so if DIVX is selectable, the route is real and validated.
Convert on your device
Press Convert. A WebAssembly FFmpeg build demuxes the audio track and re-encodes it locally; the video stream is simply discarded.
Verify and download
Each result is signature-checked before the download unlocks, so a failed encode can never masquerade as a valid DIVX file. Outputs keep the original filename with the .divx extension.
WMV to DIVX questions, answered
Will converting WMV to DIVX lose quality?
Since wmv is container-oriented and divx is container-oriented, the conversion preserves the source content exactly as stored; no additional compression pass is applied beyond what .divx itself requires.
Is it private to convert WMV files here?
Yes — the .wmv file is processed inside your browser tab and never uploaded. A WebAssembly FFmpeg build demuxes the audio track and re-encodes it locally; the video stream is simply discarded. Close the tab and the file is gone from memory.
Where will the DIVX file work?
VLC, MPC-HC, and ffmpeg open .divx files as readily as AVI, and renaming to .avi works whenever the menu features go unused. No browser or mobile platform supports the format, and DivX-certified DVD hardware was the only native device support that ever existed.
Will the DIVX file be bigger or smaller than my WMV?
Much smaller — the video stream is usually 80–95% of a .wmv file's weight, and it is discarded entirely. The remaining audio is re-encoded at the bitrate implied by your quality setting.
What happens to the metadata in my WMV file?
This converter strips container metadata deliberately (the FFmpeg command runs with metadata mapping disabled) so exported files do not leak recording details. In the source, aSF content-description attributes hold title, author, copyright, and rating fields, plus extended attributes used by Windows Media Player libraries; none of it is transmitted anywhere because the file never leaves your browser.
Can I convert DIVX back to WMV?
Yes — the reverse route exists as a separate tool. Bear in mind that round-tripping .wmv → .divx → .wmv is not a perfect undo when any lossy step is involved; keep your original if fidelity matters.