Sample WMV Files — Download Windows Media Test Videos
Windows Media Video · .wmv · MIME type video/x-ms-wmv
Download a sample WMV file — Windows Media Video in an ASF container with WMA audio, the format Windows Movie Maker, PowerPoint exports and many corporate archives produced throughout the 2000s. It still turns up in enterprise content migrations and e-learning platforms.
Nothing outside Windows plays WMV without extra codecs, and no browser does, so treat these as transcoder inputs. The 1080p file is a good stress test for tools that handle WMV poorly at high resolutions.
Download sample WMV files
| File | Details | Size | Download |
|---|---|---|---|
sample-video-480x270-1mb.wmv | 480 × 270 · 10 s · 30 fps · WMV2 · WMAV2 audio · 848 kbps | 1.1 MB | |
sample-video-1280x720-2mb.wmv | 1280 × 720 · 10 s · 30 fps · WMV2 · WMAV2 audio · 1599 kbps | 2.0 MB |
Use these files from the command line or CI
Every URL is stable and CORS-open. Pin the SHA-256 in your test and you will know the moment a fixture changes.
# Download one file curl -O https://pnb-website-bucket.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/samples/videos/wmv/sample-video-480x270-1mb.wmv # Verify it (SHA-256 is listed for every file above) shasum -a 256 sample-video-480x270-1mb.wmv # Machine-readable index of every sample file curl https://pnb-website-bucket.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/samples/index.json | jq '.files[] | select(.format=="wmv")'
WMV format at a glance
| Full name | Windows Media Video |
|---|---|
| Extensions | .wmv |
| MIME type | video/x-ms-wmv |
| Introduced | Microsoft, 1999 |
| Container | ASF (Advanced Systems Format) |
| Codecs here | WMV2 (Windows Media Video 8) + WMA v2 |
| Browser playback | None |
| Magic bytes | 30 26 B2 75 8E 66 CF 11 |
What people test with sample WMV files
- Enterprise and e-learning content migration
- PowerPoint-exported video handling
- Transcoder input coverage
Frequently asked questions
How do I play a WMV file on a Mac?
VLC plays it. For anything else, convert it to MP4 with ffmpeg or HandBrake; WMV needs a full re-encode because MP4 cannot hold the WMV codec.
Are these WMV files safe to download?
Yes. Every file is generated by our own open script from scratch — nothing is scraped or user-uploaded — and contains no scripts, macros or executables. The SHA-256 of each file is published on this page so you can verify what you received.
Can I use the sample WMV files commercially?
Yes. They are free for any purpose, including commercial products, test suites, demos and redistribution, with no attribution required. There is nothing to license and no one to ask.
Can I hotlink these files or use them in CI?
Yes. Every link is a stable direct URL over HTTPS with Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * and long cache headers, so curl, wget, fetch() and test runners can pull them directly. A JSON index of every file is linked from each page (see the command-line section).
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