I'm not a mac person, and I haven't tried this, but check out ganim8 (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ganim8/), which should at least work for smallish videos.
No, I don't think it does ... they have a list of all the file formats one can convert from and to, and Windows Media Player is not a format to which ganim8 can convert. Oh well, nice try. Thank you. :-)
it's at http://ganim8.sourceforge.net/formats.php (http://ganim8.sourceforge.net/formats.php) ... you may have been looking at the page for the conversion tool, which despite the name is only for converting still images, not video.
you know what? never mind ganim8. it requires ffmpeg (http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net/) to handle any of the codecs you're talking about, and ffmpeg will do the conversion without ganim8.
however, it's command-line.
if it looks too difficult, ganim8 *might* provide some kind of useful front-end, but I dunno.
Actually, I have FFusion, which is the successor to ffmeg. But in some ways I thought ffmeg was a bit better -- I'll have to revert back to it. Thank you very much for the tip, you are very kind.
Also, this whole thing is kind of stupid of me to have asked, because I really dislike WMV anyway. I fill silly for asking -- I am trying to be magnanimous towards Windoze users, but maybe it isn't necessary.
Maybe I should just stick to my .MOV and my .AVI and my MPEG-4 and who cares about WMV and .RM. Bleh.
Thank you again very much for your help.
BTW Kerri showed me some pictures from Maryland that I think had you in them. After all, anyone on any platform can use VLC or mplayer, which both play almost anything.
I want the Fink people to bring in the GIMP 2.0 update soon. There's a standalone version (still runs off X11, but it's a .app) but I don't particularly want two GIMPs lying around.
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video conversion is hairy. just a warning.
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however, it's command-line.
if it looks too difficult, ganim8 *might* provide some kind of useful front-end, but I dunno.
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Also, this whole thing is kind of stupid of me to have asked, because I really dislike WMV anyway. I fill silly for asking -- I am trying to be magnanimous towards Windoze users, but maybe it isn't necessary.
Maybe I should just stick to my .MOV and my .AVI and my MPEG-4 and who cares about WMV and .RM. Bleh.
Thank you again very much for your help.
BTW Kerri showed me some pictures from Maryland that I think had you in them.
After all, anyone on any platform can use VLC or mplayer, which both play almost anything.
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sorry for the random post
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I want the Fink people to bring in the GIMP 2.0 update soon. There's a standalone version (still runs off X11, but it's a .app) but I don't particularly want two GIMPs lying around.
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What are the new features in GIMP 2.0?