WTV Converter

Convert Windows TV recordings (WTV) online for free


Drop or upload your .WTV file
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How to convert your WTV file

  1. Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your WTV file.
  2. You'll see a preview.
  3. Click the "Convert file to..." button to save your file in the format you want.

Convert WTV to another file type

The converter easily converts your WTV TV recordings to various formats - free and online. No Windows Media Center or other Video software needed.

  • WTV to MP4
  • WTV to MKV
  • WTV to AVI
  • WTV to MOV
  • WTV to WMV
  • WTV to FLV
  • WTV to WEBM
  • WTV to M4V
  • WTV to 3GP
  • WTV to OGV
  • WTV to ASF
  • WTV to RM

Convert a file to WTV

The converter also works in reverse, so you can convert other "Recorded TV Show Container" formats to WTV without using software like Windows Media Center or a similar tool.

  • MTS to WTV
  • MOV to WTV
  • DIVX to WTV
  • RM to WTV
  • H264 to WTV
  • WMV to WTV
  • VOB to WTV
  • MP4 to WTV
  • XVID to WTV
  • AVI to WTV
  • MVI to WTV
  • MKV to WTV

About WTV files

The .WTV file format is a proprietary video container developed by Microsoft to store television broadcasts recorded via Windows Media Center. You can read more about its architecture on Wikipedia. Since Windows Media Center was discontinued, playing these files natively has become extremely difficult. The .WTV format is notoriously restrictive. It is not supported by web browsers, Apple devices, modern smart TVs, or standard video editing suites. Furthermore, files often suffer from massive file sizes because they capture the raw broadcast stream. Crucially, Microsoft frequently applied PlayReady Digital Rights Management (DRM) to these files, locking playback to the original recording PC. To make these recordings usable today, conversion is mandatory. For universal playback across web, mobile, and Apple devices, convert to MP4 (using H.264 compression). If you want to archive the video while preserving all original audio tracks and subtitles without quality loss, convert to MKV. Just drag and drop your file here to analyze and convert it - free, online, and without installing software. Please note that DRM-encrypted broadcasts cannot be legally decrypted or converted by third-party tools.

Use Convert.Guru to open and convert your WTV file.

Users also converted AV, WEBM, MKV and MP4 files.


FAQ

If you want to convert WTV file to , you can use Windows Media Center or similar software from the "Television Broadcast Video Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert RMVB or TS files to WTV, try Windows Media Center or another comparable tool in the "Television Broadcast Video Storage" category.



The WTV Converter Story

The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our WTV converter.