How to convert wmv to avi on Linux

Windows Media Video (WMV) is a media container and compression format used for Microsoft's proprietary codecs, and as such there are not many software that support playback of WMV files, besides Microsoft's own products such as Windows Media Player and Windows Movie Maker. On the other hand, Audio Video Interleaved (AVI) is a container format for various standard multimedia codecs such as DivX, Xvid, MPEG4, etc., and hence enjoys wider software compatibility.Read more »