[X4U] I need to burn WMV files to DVD

[Nick Scalise]

---- John Kiss <john.kiss at comcast.net> wrote: 
> 
> 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.

I'm pretty sure that the only reason MPEG StreamCLip works with WMV is because you have the Flip4Mac installed.  Do you have Flip4Mac installed?


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Nick Scalise
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