Importing WMV into iDVD - burning these files

Hi, got a number of .wmv files back from my Windows days and would love to import these into iDVD/ burn them on DVD. Any ides how to do this? Is there a tool to convert these files into a Mac version?

Is there a tool to convert these files into a Mac version?
You need to purchase flip4mac, which allows wmv files to be played in Quicktime. Here is the link:
http://www.flip4mac.com/wmv.htm
Works great for playing these files in Quicktime. Once you have flip4mac installed, right-click on any wmv file, choose 'get info', and go to the 'open with' section and select WMV player instead of windows media player, and click change all so that all of your wmv files will now play with Quicktime by default.

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