ODG to WTV Converter

ODG to WTV: A Drawing in Windows Recorded TV Packaging

.odg is an OpenDocument Graphics drawing — vector shapes, connectors and text frames stored as XML inside a ZIP package by LibreOffice Draw or Apache OpenOffice Draw. .wtv is Windows Recorded TV Show, the container Microsoft built for Windows Media Center: it arrived with the Media Center TV Pack 2008 for Windows Vista, became the standard recording format in Windows 7 Media Center, and succeeded the older DVR-MS format from Windows XP Media Center Edition. This page renders your drawing and encodes each page as a silent held frame inside that container.

How to Convert ODG to WTV

1. Upload Your ODG File: Drag the .odg onto the page or click "+ Add Files". With several files, Merge strategy decides the result: "Merge images" writes one .wtv holding each drawing in turn, "Video per image" writes one file per upload.
2. Set the Video Resolution: Video resolution opens on "Keep original", which for an A4 drawing is a 300 DPI render near 2480 x 3508 pixels. Media Center's world was 1920 x 1080 and below, so pick a Fixed Resolution — 1920 x 1080 or 1280 x 720 — before converting.
3. Set the Image Duration and Background Color: Image Duration → Duration sets how long each rendered page is held, 5 seconds by default and adjustable from a 1/60-second frame up to 10 seconds. Background Color, White by default, fills any area a page of a different shape leaves uncovered.
4. Convert and Download: Click "Convert" and save the .wtv. Files are uploaded over an encrypted connection, processed on our servers, and deleted automatically after a few hours. No sign-up, no watermark.

WTV at a Glance

WTV Against the Mainstream Containers

What the Conversion Produces

LibreOffice opens the .odg as a Draw document, exports it through Draw's own PDF filter, and each page of that PDF is rendered at 300 DPI into a frame before the H.264 encoder compresses it and the WTV muxer wraps it. What you get is a valid Windows Recorded TV file carrying a silent still — but none of the things that make a real WTV interesting. There is no broadcast metadata, no closed-caption track, no programme guide information and no audio, because a drawing supplies none of them. It is a graphic in a television envelope.

Two consequences: page count is preserved, so a three-page drawing becomes three held frames in one file; and the file will look unusual to anything that inspects WTV recordings for programme data. If the destination is a media library rather than Media Center itself, a mainstream container is almost always the better answer.

Frequently Asked Questions

Why is there no codec choice on this page?

Because the Video Codec group offers no alternatives for this container here — the encode is H.264. That is a reasonable default: newer Media Center captures used H.264 too, and it is the codec most likely to decode cleanly in VLC or any modern player that will open a .wtv at all. If you need a specific codec, choose a container that exposes one, such as ODG to MKV.

Will this file play in Windows Media Center?

If you still have Media Center running, it should open as a video file — but it will not behave like a recording, because it carries no programme metadata, no audio and no captions. Media Center was discontinued with Windows 10 in 2015, so most people meeting a .wtv today open it in VLC instead, which handles it without complaint.

Does the WTV have audio?

No. An ODG is a still drawing with nothing to encode, so the Audio Codec group does not render on this page and the muxer writes a video track only. A genuine TV recording would carry AC-3 or MPEG-1 Layer II audio; this file has neither. Add a silent track in a video editor if something downstream insists on one.

What happens to a multi-page Draw document?

Each drawing page becomes its own held frame inside the same .wtv, in page order, shown for the Image Duration you set. Three pages at the 5-second default give a 15-second clip. If you would rather have one file per page, save the pages as separate .odg files in LibreOffice Draw, upload them together and set Merge strategy to "Video per image".

What resolution should I use?

Something Media Center's era would recognise: 1920 x 1080 or 1280 x 720 under Fixed Resolutions. Leaving Video resolution on "Keep original" hands the encoder the drawing's full 300 DPI render — sharp, but portrait-shaped and far larger than any TV-oriented player expects. Scaling down from that render is the direction that keeps thin lines clean.

Is WTV a sensible target for a diagram?

Only if a Media Center installation or a library keyed to the extension is genuinely involved. It is a legacy Microsoft container with narrow support and no advantage for a static image. For a clip anyone can play, ODG to MP4 is the universal choice; for a picture, ODG to PNG is smaller, sharper and immediate.

Why is the finished file so small?

Because a still frame at 1 fps is close to the cheapest thing H.264 can encode — one keyframe and then almost nothing. A few seconds of a simple diagram routinely lands in the low tens of kilobytes. That is expected, not a failed conversion; raise the frame size if a picky ingest process wants something heavier.

How are my uploaded files handled?

Your drawing travels over an encrypted connection, is rendered and encoded on our servers, and is deleted automatically a few hours later along with the .wtv it produced. Nothing is shared, published or reused, no account is required, and no watermark is applied. The ODG converter hub lists every other target for the same source file.