File Extension WV

File type: WavPack Audio File

About the WV file type:

If Windows cannot find the appropriate program associated with .WV files, then your registry may have errors. Check your Windows registry for errors (includes file association errors).

WV files are audio files that are compress by using WavPack Hybrid Lossless Compression techniques. Since WavPack compressions of the files is a lossless compression technique, the quality if the audio is not compromised in any way and it still retains as what it was originally. In spite of that the WavPack compression techniques are able to achieve a compression ratio better 30-70% usually depending on the actual video content. The WavPack compression technique has support for all stereo, mono and multi-channel audio and it is completely compatible with most of the PCM audio formats such as 32, 24, 15, and 8-bit recordings and it also has support for variations in the sampling rates between 6-192 KHz.


Detailed information for file extension WV

Category: Audio File
File format: Proprietary
Open with Windows: Steinberg WaveLab Audio Editor with plugin, NullSoft Winamp with plugin, Adobe Audition with plugin, Reaper Multitrack Audio Recorder and Editor, VUPlayer Audio Player, Foobar2000 Advanced Audio Player, WavPack Win32
Open with Linux: XMMS with plugin, Audacious Media Player, Aqualung, WavPack for Linux