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I received a MP3/video player as a gift, but it only supports WMV, ASF, and AMV. There's absolutely no way to return this, as it's from a foreign country, so I'm stuck using a proprietary format.
What's the best application or utility to convert video files into one of these formats?
Your best bet for conversion is probably that old workhorse mplayer/mencoder. It can use Windows codecs and can convert almost any format into almost any other. Hopefully it will let you convert your files into a format your player will understand.
Not to be contrary, but the original poster seemed to be asking only about video conversion. Since he says it's an MP3 player, I assume that audio files aren't the problem. (And I can't imagine anyone actually choosing .wma over .mp3. )
A quick search of the mplayer man file says that the lavc codec can output to wmv7 and wmv8. Hopefully that will be good enough for him.
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