Convert XMV files online for free
The converter easily converts your XMV file to various formats - free and online. No VLC or extra software needed.
The converter also works in reverse, so you can convert other Video formats to XMV with high quality output.
The .XMV file extension is most historically associated with the Xbox Media Video format, a proprietary video container developed by Microsoft for the original Xbox console. These files were typically used to store in-game cutscenes, opening movies, and trailers. While technically similar to the standard WMV (Windows Media Video) format, .XMV files contain specific headers and often utilize Xbox-specific audio codecs (such as Xbox ADPCM) that prevent them from playing natively on modern PC media players like QuickTime or standard Windows Media Player.
Because this is a legacy console format, users frequently encounter friction when trying to view game assets extracted from game discs. The files are not web-ready and require conversion for archiving or uploading to platforms like YouTube. For the best compatibility, we recommend converting these files to MP4 (H.264 video with AAC audio) for web use, or MKV if you wish to preserve the original quality without re-encoding the video stream. Occasionally, an .XMV file may be a metadata index file created by NDS Group PVR systems; in this rare case, the file contains no video data itself, only recording timestamps, and cannot be converted to a viewable format.
Use Convert.Guru to open and convert your XMV file.
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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 XMV converter.