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I had several requests for a hit on my question about converting video to be read by a dvd player, so, here’s my original question followed by everyone’s responses. ******************************************************************************* Hello everyone. I was so happy today when I had a teacher ask me for a Streaming Video from United Streaming. I was going to try out my BRAND NEW DVD burner from Sony. Well, imagine my shock when I realized you can't burn a Windows Media Player file to a DVD and have it play on a DVD player . . . duh. No problemo, I'll fire up the good old Nero and convert that sucker to at least an AVI. Um, actually, no I won't because Nero is a burning suite, not a converting suite. . . duh x2. So, who can recommend some good freeware that converts .wmf and it's brethren to a DVD player recognizable form? Anyone? ******************************************************************************* just copy the file on a cd, most dvd players will play cds ******************************************************************************* Real Player can convert also Iomega can convert as well. ******************************************************************************* I used Switch last year for audio - it was pretty easy to use and you can get a trial version. I'm not sure if you can convert video with it or not. ******************************************************************************* At our school we will download the whole or parts of the United Streaming video to one of our servers. That prevents the download problem. Then the teacher hooks up his/her desktop or laptop to an LCD projector and connects to the file on the server. If that teacher's computer speakers aren't very good or the room is very large, I connect his/her computer to a good quality speaker. Normally you can use computer speakers. ******************************************************************************* if you'll go to the video file and change the extension from .asf to .asx, you can then use Nero (or Roxio) to import the file into the DVD creation page. THEN you can burn the DVD. ******************************************************************************* I use the free program "Super". I've used it to convert flash movies to avi and put a power point onto a dvd. I find it works well and haven't had any problems with it. It seems to convert from just about any format to any other. You can find it here: http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html ******************************************************************************* If you can convert from Windows Media to Quicktime in the settings before you download it, you can view it on a reg DVD player. ******************************************************************************* -- Shannon D. Wham, Librarian Bell Street MS 600 Peachtree St. Clinton, SC 29325 sdwham@laurens56.k12.sc.us sdeanwham@charter.net "Id temporis consilium bonum videbatur" -------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note: All LM_NET postings are protected by copyright law. You can prevent most e-mail filters from deleting LM_NET postings by adding LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU to your e-mail address book. To change your LM_NET status, e-mail to: listserv@listserv.syr.edu In the message write EITHER: 1) SIGNOFF LM_NET 2) SET LM_NET NOMAIL 3) SET LM_NET MAIL 4) SET LM_NET DIGEST * Allow for confirmation. * LM_NET Help & Information: http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/ * LM_NET Archive: http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/archive/ * EL-Announce with LM_NET Select: http://elann.biglist.com/sub/ * LM_NET Supporters: http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/ven.html --------------------------------------------------------------------