"Onno"
There is no link there for WMV to divx conversion, only a link for
conversion without reencoding using ASFTools.
The old version of Virtualdub (1.3c and lower)does not accept WMV/ASF with
the WMV codecs.
AFAIK, the only freeware that can do this is TMPGenc.
in videhelp -- wmv2avi, all archives -- there's a page explaining
"How to Convert WMV8 and WMV9 to other formats the BEST way"
following it i downloaded wme from ms and converted the wmv to a fixed
framerate wmv -- but vdub 1.3c gives an error when opening it. anyway the
converted file is 19mb, compared to the 33mb of the source (a home movie
about an ill labrador). i think it can be shrinked to 3-4 megs.
i'd also tried with asftools, but it'd give an error too.
i'll try again with different wme options, and will try tmpgenc as well.