HELP! MAC WMV VIDEOS!

Ok. since I have windows media player for mac, most of my videos are in the WMV format, everytime I try and drag these to iMovie, it says that its not a quicktime file...what do I do? I want to get these videos on my iPod. HELP!
--Kell

Hi Kelly K.
Have you tried iSquint?
i've had much luck with it and i think it might work for you too!
here are some of it's features.
Features:
- Fast MPEG-4 and H.264 conversion from almost every popular video format, from 3GP to XviD.
- QuickTime Pro and DivX codec not required.
- DivX/XviD AVIs, all forms of MPEG video, and many other formats QuickTime chokes on are supported.
- WMV 7/8 files supported. With the Flip4Mac plugin, all WMV files are supported - including WMV9.
- Batch Processing of multiple files. Save in-place, or to a different folder.
- Automatic aspect ratio detection. Anamorphic MPEG-2 and HDV detected too.
- Quality slider. Leave it as is to trust me, mess with it if you know better, or completely ignore it and play with the...
- Advanced settings drawer. Change every aspect of the conversion process.
- Just a few of the supported formats: .mov .mp4 .avi .dv .mpg .vob .3gp .asf .wmv .flv .m4v
and here is the link.
http://www.isquint.org/
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