Converting an .wmv file

Don't know if this is actually where I should post this but...
I'm editing some footage from a friend of their wedding, and putting it on dvd. Someone made them a short video to a song and burned it on a cd-rom in .wmv format - it auto-opens in windows media player.
Don't really even want to work with this file. Just want to be able to dump it into iDVD as one of the options to play "as is", but apparently have to convert it over to QT format in order to do that.
Any recommendations/suggestions on how to accomplish this would be appreciated.
For future reference, if someone knows how to pull .wmv files into FCE in order to edit, would like that info as well.
Thanks for your help!

Flip For Mac. Supposed to work fine.

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