WMV to QuickTime?

[lombarke]

Hey...trying to ultimately burn a WMV file to DVD (for viewing on a DVD player, not data) using iDVD. Is there a conversion utility (or any way) to convert a WMV file to a QuickTime file? Or maybe even a program that will do a straight burn of a WMV to DVD? Friggen Windows.

 

[mdnky]

www.flip4mac.com

 

[lombarke]

www.flip4mac.com

that's a bit of a pricey solution, and really i'll only be doing this with one movie (it's not even for me, just a friend). Is there no other way? I read that flip4mac only loads half the movie in trial mode?

 

[Spiny]

Hi lombarke,
Take a look here, not looked into it much, but there seems to be numerous workarounds in the discussions forums: http://homepage.mac.com/major4/
Cheers,
Spiny

 

[lombarke]

Hi lombarke,
Take a look here, not looked into it much, but there seems to be numerous workarounds in the discussions forums: http://homepage.mac.com/major4/
Cheers,
Spiny

seems like a total pain....even on a windows machine (i guess that's microsoft for you). If anybody else has any other suggestions, I'm open to it...otherwise, I'll try some of that stuff when I get home.

 

[lnm]

These will do it on the Windows side:
http://www.riverpast.com/en/support/tutorials/convert/wmv/mov.php $80
http://www.imagespro.com/programs/2833/ $30 (shareware)
http://www.imagespro.com/programs/2726/ $30 (shareware)

 

[lombarke]

hey guys...thanks for all your help. i tried a whole bunch of stuff last night, and it seems the WMV is a WMV3 file, and from what I've read it looks like ffmpeg won't really convert anything other than a WMV1 OR 2. so i'll probably have to try on a PC....or give up

 

[mdnky]

No more pricey than the Windows side, really. $10 for the Flip4Mac reader, then $30 for QT Pro (so you can export it).