Does anyone know how to convert these to other formats, like MPG or WMV?

http://www.netzpolitik.org/wp-upload/netzpolitik-tv_lawrence_lessig_cc_publisher.avi
http://www.netzpolitik.org/wp-upload/netzpolitik-tv_lawrence_lessig_environmental_movement_and_free_culture.avi
http://www.netzpolitik.org/wp-upload/netzpolitik-tv_lawrence_lessig_science_commons.avi
http://www.netzpolitik.org/wp-upload/netzpolitik-tv_lawrence_lessig_gema_or_cc.avi
http://www.netzpolitik.org/wp-upload/netzpolitik-tv_lawrence_lessig_cc_and_ngos.avi
http://www.netzpolitik.org/wp-upload/netzpolitik-tv_lawrence_lessig_on_net_neutrality.avi
http://www.netzpolitik.org/wp-upload/netzpolitik-tv_lawrence_lessig_on_german_copyright_reform.avi
http://www.netzpolitik.org/wp-upload/netzpolitik-tv_lawrence_lessig_by-sa_or_by.avi

I can't play them in Windows Media Player or open them in Windows Media Maker. I can only open them in the DivX player, but the DivX converter shows an "unknown error" when opening them.

(This is a CC-licensed interiew with Lawrence Lessig http://netzpolitik.org/2006/aktionremixt-lessig/)

download VLC:
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

awesome player, that plays everything!!

give it a try Philipp

I'm looking for a conversion utility myself too. I have an wmv and it should be converted to mpg to create a DVD. Or if you know some freeware that can make a DVD from a wmv file, that should do too ;-)

(Sorry for the OT thing, but Philipp started ;-))

how about Virtualdub?

http://www.virtualdub.org/

dont know if it will bring any good Art-One, but give it a try..
(i know it can convert MPG files to AVI files..)

I use Video Cleaner Lite,which is alright,but my favorite that does just about everything i throw at it is ConvertMovie 4.1

http://www.riverpast.com/

http://movavi.com/

Here's links to stuff i have bookmarked but haven't tried

http://www.boilsoft.com/
http://www.aone-soft.com/
http://www.videozilla.net/

A good resource on video is http://www.videohelp.com/

Philipp,

I have converted the avi format to wma format, you can download them at
http://threadssearch.com/philipp/

Good Luck

Online file conversion: http://www.zamzar.com/
Bad bit is you have to upload, check your e-mail then download, good bit is it's free

My file is 390 MB :< , zamzar.com just goes until 100 MB...

Thanks Pokemo! I was actually trying to convert this to WMV/ video...

Yeah.. I'd like to convert to WMV so I can play them on my Windows Media Center PC over the XBox360.. This is REALLY important for me. I do know that Vista will stream DivX though. Which is very good.

Strange, ConvertMovie 4.3 omits the sound when converting to WMV...

Philipp, Could you post a little write-up on your main Blog about this conversion process?? I crawled the internet for a long time trying to find a solution for converting AVI --> WMV. All I could find was spammy looking software which I wasn't too interested in. I think the post would help a lot of people.

I recommend that anyone with command line experience tries FFMPEG.

Failing that, www.doom9.org has a selection of useful guides

Justin, I just tried ConvertMovie per the advice above, but the sound was missing... I did use the trial version though, I didn't buy it yet...

There's something called Switch. The Basic Version works pretty well.

http://www.nch.com.au/switch/

I downloaded the first of the videos and I was able to open/play and re-encode in a program called 'SUPER'. It was able to make the video into a working .WMV. The website to download SUPER is:
http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html

VLC will play everything.

SUPER is just a GUI to FFMPEG (and a few other utilities). In my opinion, FFMPEG command line gives better quality and more control over file size

Yeah, I always use ffmpeg. It comes with my Linux distribution and can convert almost everything to everything. I believe there is Windows version.

Yeh, a windows version is freely available, and it comes with nearly all Linux distros. Best of all, it converts (nearly) everything and is free

Hi Philipp,

Now you can covert them online to MPG or WMV using their service
http://www.zamzar.com/

Thanks Pokemo, this is a nice service...

Also check: http://media-convert.com/