[X4U] I need to burn WMV files to DVD

[John Kiss]

On Apr 28, 2006, at 11:18 AM, Mark Des Cotes wrote:

> My son is doing a project on the Roman Army for his grade 4 class.  
> I found a web site with video files of battle re-enactment that  
> he'd like to show to his class. I've managed to download the WMV  
> files to my desktop. Now I'm at a loss on how to burn them to DVD  
> with a nice menu so that they can be played back on a standard DVD  
> player. Toast, iMovie and iDVD all say they don't recognize the  
> format. Quicktime won't play them but Windows Media Player will. Is  
> there any way I can convert them to a format that, preferably Toast  
> will recognize?

Try MPEG Streamclip. Once the WMV file is open export it to Quicktime  
using the Apple DV/DVCPRO compressor. I've had some success with it.  
The sound sometimes doesn't work but I get around the problem by  
selecting No Sound in the Export dialog. Sound can be separately  
extracted from the WMV file using Stream Recorder then added back in  
in iMovie.