convert file.wmv to .wav ?

[Chris Jones]

On Sunday 16 September 2007 8:42:02 pm Bob Goodwin wrote:
> Matthew Flaschen wrote:
> > Bob Goodwin wrote:
> >> Ok, that produced a .wav file that plays in Audacity!  It's a large
> >> voice file that needs compression to bring it down to a reasonable size.
> >
> > You should now be able to easily compress it to Ogg Vorbis or MP3 with
> > the commands Adalbert Prokop gave.
> >
> > Matt Flaschen
>
> Yes I understand that.  Actually I used Audacity since I wanted to edit
> the file also.  It was a voice file and I was able to reduce it [mp3] to
> about one tenth of the .wav file size.

I've always found transcode pretty good. You can go from pretty much any 
format to any other, in one go (it delegates the real work to the other 
backends, like lame, oggenc, ffmpeg etc.).

http://www.transcoding.org/cgi-bin/transcode

available via yum

Chris