PNG to WTV Converter

PNG to WTV Converter

This tool turns a still PNG image into a WTV (Windows Recorded TV Show) video — a single frame held on screen for a duration you set, with no motion and no audio. WTV is the recording container from Windows Media Center, so this conversion only makes sense if you specifically need a Media Center-era file. Microsoft discontinued Windows Media Center (it is not in Windows 10 or Windows 11), so for almost every other purpose you should output PNG to MP4 instead — MP4 plays everywhere and produces a much smaller file.

What This Conversion Actually Does

A PNG is one static frame. A WTV is a video container expecting motion and audio. To bridge them, the converter encodes your single image as a short clip:

• The PNG is shown for a fixed duration (you choose how many seconds), with no animation between frames.
• There is no audio track — the output is a silent video.
• PNG transparency is flattened onto a solid background color (black by default), because WTV's video codecs have no alpha channel. Anything transparent becomes that background color.

If you need the image to move, fade, or carry sound, a still-to-WTV conversion is the wrong tool — assemble a real video in an editor first.

WTV Format at a Glance

Output of This Tool at a Glance

How to Convert PNG to WTV

1. Upload Your PNG File: Drag and drop your PNG onto the page or click "Add Files" to browse. You can add several images and convert them in one batch.
2. Set the Duration: Open Advanced Options and use Duration to choose how many seconds the still is held on screen (for example, 5 seconds per image).
3. Pick a Background Color and Resolution: Because transparency is flattened, set Background Color to whatever should sit behind transparent pixels, and optionally choose a Resolution preset and Quality Preset instead of keeping the original size.
4. Convert and Download: Click Convert. Files are uploaded over an encrypted connection, processed on our servers, and deleted automatically a few hours after conversion — no sign-up, no watermark, never shared. Download your WTV file when it is ready.

Frequently Asked Questions

Should I really convert PNG to WTV, or use MP4?

For almost everyone, MP4. WTV is the Windows Media Center recording format, and Media Center is gone from modern Windows — a WTV file will not open on a clean Windows 10 or Windows 11 install without third-party software like VLC. Only choose WTV if you are feeding a legacy Media Center library or a tool that specifically expects .wtv. Otherwise use PNG to MP4 for a smaller, universally playable file.

Will the WTV file play on Windows 10 or Windows 11?

Not out of the box. Microsoft announced in May 2015 that Windows Media Center would not be part of Windows 10, and it was removed during upgrades; there is no official Media Center in Windows 11 either. To play a WTV on current Windows, use VLC, which reads the format directly. If portability matters more than the WTV container, convert it onward with WTV to MP4.

What happens to my PNG's transparency?

It is flattened. WTV stores MPEG-2 or MPEG-4 video, neither of which has an alpha channel, so transparent areas are filled with the Background Color you choose (black by default). If your logo or graphic relied on a see-through background, pick a background color that matches where the video will be shown, or keep the source as PNG.

Why is the output silent?

A PNG carries no sound, and this tool does not add an audio track, so the resulting WTV is a video-only clip — your image displayed for the chosen duration. WTV itself can hold MPEG-1 Layer II or AC-3 audio when recorded from a broadcast, but a single image has nothing to encode, so the audio stream is simply empty.

How long will the video be?

Exactly as long as the Duration you set. The single frame is held for that whole period — pick, say, 5 seconds and you get a 5-second silent clip. There is no motion, so a longer duration only makes the file larger without adding anything visually.

Can I turn the WTV back into a PNG later?

Yes — to pull a still frame out of a WTV recording, use WTV to PNG, which extracts a frame as an image. Note that re-encoding through a lossy video codec and back to PNG will not perfectly reconstruct the original pixels, so keep your source PNG if you need an exact copy.

In your testing, how large is a PNG-to-WTV file?

In our testing, WTV is far heavier than a modern container for the same still: because it wraps the frame in an MPEG-2/MPEG-4 stream sized for broadcast TV, a multi-second clip of one image is typically several times larger than the equivalent MP4 of the same duration and resolution. That overhead is another reason to prefer MP4 unless a Media Center workflow specifically requires WTV.