Cant find conversion program for my windows video clips.

Hi
I recently purchased an Intel iMac as my main desktop PC. I have a little cheap mini DV camcorder which i occasionally filmed my dog on agility course etc. It seems to save the files with a .ASF extension.
The windows media player (on previous desktop win XP home edition) had no problems viewing these and I was able to put clips together to make a mini movie which it was saved with .MSWMM extension.
I have looked through free downloads like perian etc on this site but cant find a mention of .asf or .mswmm extensions that would allow me to view and edit these in iMovie.
I looked at 'MPEG streamclip' which i liked as it allows you to save 'youtube' clips, but that doesnt mention .asf or .mswmm either and i cant find an email address to contact anyone about that on the site i saw it on.
Can anyone tell me what i need to be able to play my existing video clips on my iMac?
Also is there a camcorder out that does automatically saves video clips in a mac compatible format to save me having to convert everything all the time in future?
Thanks
Kati

I've had pretty good luck with Flip4Mac. Here's a blurb about what it will translate (thru Quicktime):
Advanced Systems Format (ASF), Advanced Stream Redirector (ASX) and Audio Video Interleaved (AVI). The plug-in can also handle Windows Media Video (WMV) containers, which have the same roots as ASF. The Microsoft's audio container, Windows Media Audio (WMA) is also supported by this plug-in.
One quick question....you downloaded it, but did you install it? Sorry if that's a dumb question for you, but, for some, it's a reasonable concern.
All that being said, if you're asf isn't playing, possibly it doesn't conform to a standard compatible with F4M. Occasionally I will run across a file that says it's a wmv, but hiding underneath is an unsupported codec, which renders it unplayable on a Mac with F4M, or anything else.
Sometimes VLC will play content that nothing else will.

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