I tried the QT Pro route and that worked fine. I loaded up the WMV file in QuickTime Player, chose export and then chose Sound to AIFF. That gave me an AIFF which I could then pull into iTunes and convert to MP3 or whatever.
CB Esther wrote: > Hi Mark, > > Mark BurningHawk Baxter wrote: > > >> Just as t says; I'm running Leopard on an MBP15. I have a wmv file I >> want to convert to something Itunes can play; recommendations? >> > > This isn't anything I've had experience with; I assume that wmv files > are video files in Microsoft's format? However, a Google search > brought up this page which points to a free converter with available > versions for Intel Mac and Power PC Mac: > > http://www.moviesmac.com/tutorial/wmv-mac.html > (How to convert WMV to MP4, FLV, MOV, etc. on Mac OS X) > > and there's a related page: > http://www.moviesmac.com/wmv/wmv-to-mp3-for-itunes-or-garageband.html > (How to Convert WMV file to MP3 for iTunes or Garageband) > > I think that if you have QuickTime Pro there's an export setting you > can use to extract the audio, as the second linked page describes. I > don't have QuickTime Pro, which you can purchase for $29.95, but it > handles a lot of these types of conversions, so if anyone is > interested in that route, they can look up the description of > QuickTime Pro at the Apple pages and purchase a license from the links > there: > > http://www.apple.com/quicktime/pro/ > > Let us know whether any of this works out. > > Cheers, > > Esther > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
