How to convert WMV movie files to iphone or icloud??
January 19, 2019 1:03 PM Subscribe
My WMV movie files are from a camcorder I had a few years back. When I try to upload the WMV movie file to I cloud, it WILL download it to I cloud, but it shows a little white thumbnail with WMV inside it and there is a corner of the thumbnail turned down. When I try to click on it to watch it, it just says windows media. Is there a reliable app I can get that will convert WMV to I phone or to I cloud or to MOV? There are so many apps online and want to pick a reliable one.
Thanks!
Seconding Handbrake.
posted by jessamyn at 1:51 PM on January 19, 2019 [1 favorite]
posted by jessamyn at 1:51 PM on January 19, 2019 [1 favorite]
Handbrake, if you are interested in all the options. Uploading to and downloading from Youtube is what I do, when I don't have Handbrake around.
posted by ouke at 1:56 PM on January 19, 2019
posted by ouke at 1:56 PM on January 19, 2019
Handbrake is great (albeit possibly intimidating) for transcoding video files like your WMV from one format to another. However, I just want to be sure we're solving the right problem here. Files moving into your iCloud Drive shouldn't change them, break filetype associations, or affect whether or not they're playable.
So to clarify; are you using iCloud Drive to share them with a second computer, and that computer will not play them, but the original computer still will? If that's the case then it's more likely you just need the right program on the second computer which will play the WMV, not (a more complicated) one to transcode it to a different format. If that is the case then you may want something like VLC.
posted by churl at 8:56 PM on January 19, 2019
So to clarify; are you using iCloud Drive to share them with a second computer, and that computer will not play them, but the original computer still will? If that's the case then it's more likely you just need the right program on the second computer which will play the WMV, not (a more complicated) one to transcode it to a different format. If that is the case then you may want something like VLC.
posted by churl at 8:56 PM on January 19, 2019
Ah -- re-reading the question/title, it sounds like you're probably adding them to iCloud Drive but aiming to play them on your iPhone.
Unfortunately there's no VLC for the iPhone (anymore)... but transcoding with Handbrake to a more "native" iOS-playable format like MOV or MP4 is probably preferable to trying to open them in a WMV-playing iOS app. In other words, what ^^they^^ said :)
posted by churl at 9:10 PM on January 19, 2019
Unfortunately there's no VLC for the iPhone (anymore)... but transcoding with Handbrake to a more "native" iOS-playable format like MOV or MP4 is probably preferable to trying to open them in a WMV-playing iOS app. In other words, what ^^they^^ said :)
posted by churl at 9:10 PM on January 19, 2019
Unfortunately there's no VLC for the iPhone (anymore)
Um...Yes, there is.
Honestly, I'd try using VLC first before resorting to transcoding.
posted by Thorzdad at 5:45 AM on January 20, 2019 [2 favorites]
Um...Yes, there is.
Honestly, I'd try using VLC first before resorting to transcoding.
posted by Thorzdad at 5:45 AM on January 20, 2019 [2 favorites]
Oh, excellent! It was pulled from the App Store some years ago and I missed that it got retooled and re-added. Thanks for the correction!
posted by churl at 10:34 AM on January 20, 2019
posted by churl at 10:34 AM on January 20, 2019
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