As a media format developed by Microsoft, the WMV video format has the best compatibility with the Windows operating system. So it’s widely believed that whenever you have a video playback compatibility problem on Windows, converting the video from its original format to WMV is one of the most promising solutions, especially when your original video is an MKV video. In fact, converting an MKV video to WMV is not hard, considering both of them are popular video formats for all kinds of video content nowadays. But still, there are a lot of discussions on how to convert MKV videos to WMV in the most efficient ways. So in order to put that discussion to an end, today we are going to take a look at some of the best MKV to WMV converter tools, and figure out how to convert MKV videos to WMV with these programs in the most efficient way.

Part 1: Convert MKV to WMV with Leawo Video Converter

To convert your MKV video to WMV, the first thing that you need is a decent video converting program that is capable of dealing with MKV videos and also provides the WMV output format support. For that kind of video converter tool, I recommend Leawo Video Converter to be your first choice as it’s one of my personal favorite video converting tool for all kinds of video converting tasks.

As one of the best video converter programs on the market, Leawo Video Converter has an advanced video converting engine, giving the program the ability to convert more than 180 kinds of video or audio files from one format to another, including MKV to WMV, of course. What’s more, in the converting process, Leawo Video Converter delivers a 6 times higher speed than most of other similar video converting programs, and at the same time, it can also have basically all of the details retained even for HD videos with a resolution of 1080P or 4K.

Not only can this program deliver high efficiency in video converting tasks, it can also provide tons of customization options by its built-in video editor module. With the video converter module, you can do all of the video customization operations in order to give the best performance to your output video file. The video editor module really makes Leawo Video Converter one of the most practical and most efficient video converter programs that I have ever used. If you want to try using Leawo Video Converter to convert your MKV videos to WMV, here is a tutorial that guides you through the converting process:

Step 1: Import source video

Download, install and launch Leawo Video Converter. On the main interface of the software, you should be able to see an “Add Video” button at the upper left corner. Click on the button and locate your source MKV file to import. You can also directly drag and drop the file into the center of the frame on the program interface.

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Step 2: Set output format

Leawo Video Converter has set the “MP4 Video” as the default output format initially, as you can see from the area next to the green “Convert” button. To change the output format to WMV, simply click on the “MP4 Video” area, and then choose “Change” in the dropdown menu to go to the format selection window, where you can see all of the available formats well listed for selecting, including the “WMV Video”.

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Step 3: Further editing

You have various video editing options in the video editing panel. To go to the video editing panel, just click the “Edit” icon next to your imported video. The video editing options you have include trimming, cropping, adding watermark to video, adjusting video parameters, adding 3D effects to video and removing noise. When you are done editing, click “OK” to confirm and go back to the main panel of the software.

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Step 4: Start converting

When you think everything is ready, click the green “Convert” button to call out the convert settings panel. On the panel, you need to designate an output directory to save the output video, and then click the big “Convert” icon below to start converting.

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Part 2: Convert MKV to WMV with Windows Live Movie Maker

As an upgraded version of the regular Windows Movie Maker, Windows Live Movie Maker has some slight difference with Windows Movie Maker. But despite some small changes, Windows Live Movie Maker is still easy to use as the normal Windows Movie Maker preinstalled in your Windows operating system. Comparing to other professional video editing or converting programs, Windows Live Movie Maker provides high availability for Windows users, and have a very simple user interface to make any video converting tasks easy. It can get your video converted to most of the popular video formats out there with high quality, especially when the WMV video format is the output format because the format and the program itself are both developed by Microsoft. If you want to convert MKV to WMV with Windows Live Movie Maker effectively, just do as the following guide shows.

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Step 1: Launch Windows Live Movie Maker. To import the source video, click the “Add videos and photos” button in the toolbar.
Step 2: After importing the video, you can do some editing to the video before the conversion. When you are done editing or feel like there is no editing needed, just click the “Save movie” button in the toolbar.
Step 3: Clicking the “Save movie” button will bring out a dropdown menu, showing all of the available output formats and device presets. Choose one and click on it, then you can designate the output directory and start the conversion task.

Part 3: Convert MKV to WMV with Internet Video Converter

Although the interface of the program looks old, Internet Video Converter is actually a great video converter tool with various other media processing functions. With Internet Video Converter, you can easily convert your video from one format to another, as well as download videos from online streaming websites. Although the program was developed many years ago and hasn’t been updated for a while, causing some small bugs and issues, you can still try to use it if you don’t care much about the program interface and user experience as long as the program gets the job done. Here is how you can convert an MKV video to WMV with Internet Video Converter.

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Step 1: Download, install and launch Internet Video Converter.
Step 2: On the main interface of the program, select the “Transcoder” tab, and click the “Select a video” button to import your source MKV video.
Step 3: Click the “Save as” button to select an output folder, and then choose “WMV” as the output format in the “Format” box below.
Step 4: Finally, click the “Start conversion” button to start converting the MKV video to WMV.

Part 4: Convert MKV to WMV with MediaCoder

Like the programs introduced above, MediaCoder is also a powerful media processing program with a lot of advanced video and audio encoding options. Because of the rich functionality and the powerful media processing ability, MediaCoder is loved by so many media professionals and video creating practitioners. But don’t worry if you are only a beginner, because MediaCoder could also be a handy tool if you simply want to convert a video from one format to another. As long as you are willing to take some time to get used to the user interface, converting MKV to WMV with MediaCoder should not be a hard thing to do. Here is how to convert MKV to WMV with the highest efficiency in MediaCoder.

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Step 1: Download, install and launch MediaCoder.
Step 2: Click the “ADD” button in the toolbar to import your source MKV video file.
Step 3: After the file is imported, you can go to the lower left section in the program interface to change various output settings. For the output video format, open the “Video” tab in the section and find the format parameter to do the changes.
Step 4: Once the output settings are all done, set an output folder with the “Output folder” box at the upper right corner, and then click the “START” button in the toolbar to start converting.

Part 5: Convert MKV to WMV with Aconvert

Besides using a professional video converter program like the ones introduced above, you can also choose one of the free online converter tools to do the same job. For example, Aconvert is a very good choice for you to convert your MKV video to WMV online. It has a clean user interface, it has multiple language support and it has 26 converting servers to guarantee a high and stable converting speed. Comparing to professional video converter programs, online converters like Aconvert can offer a simpler workflow for the conversion tasks, but also have various restrictions at the same time. With an online video converter, you don’t need to download and install an extra program to convert your videos, but you have to make sure that your video is not too big in size and that you have a stable internet connection. To convert MKV to WMV online with Aconvert, here is what you need to do:

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Step 1: Visit the official website of Aconvert.
Step 2: At the homepage of Aconvert, click the “Add Files” button to upload your source MKV video file. You can also directly drag your file and drop it into the box in the center of the webpage.
Step 3: Click on the “Target” dropdown box to select your target output format for the conversion.
Step 4: When the format is selected, click the “Convert Now” button next to the “Target” dropdown box to start the conversion task.