Convert WMV for Mac losslessly?

Is there any way to convert WMV to any Mac supported video format without losing quality?
I recently switched from PC to Mac, and Picasa (for Mac) is refusing to acknowledge my WMV files.  I tried installing Flip4Mac to see if that would convince Picasa to come around, but it does not.  So it looks like I have to convert them, but I really don't want to lose quality.
Anybody know of anything?  Free software would be nice.

You could try Handbrake, it's free. make a copy of one of the WMV files and give it a go.
You could also try MPEG Streamclip, also free
Obviously your goal will be to duplicate the specs as close as possible such as Frame size, data rate, etc and converting to something like MPEG-4 with H.264 compression.

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