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Originally Posted by Greg Marra
Wait, you can?! I thought that almost every program that supported that got lawsuited by Microsoft and the only tutorial I could find to do it online made you go through seperate steps to extract audio and video.
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The free ones aren't available any more - but you can get shareware versions. Sometimes the shareware limits the speed at which you can decode/encode, the length of the clip you can edit, or a time limit on the time you can have the program installed. There are plenty of pay versions of WMV converters - but being a poor college student, I rule those options out right away.
The most popular way of getting high quality WMV rips is as you described - splicing the audio and video separately using individual decoders for each stream. It isn't fun, but it is the cheapest way to play with WMV files. I haven't done it, but if you are a code monkey, you can write some simple scripts to automate everything for you and let your computer chew on a video file over night. But I have no idea how to do that.
