What is the most efficient way to convert a .wmv video?

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joe at actionline.com writes: 

> What is the most efficient way to convert
> a .wmv video to a mpeg (or other format)
> that most systems/browsers can play? 
> 
> I have a 21-second video test.wmv -- size 641,131 here:
> - - - http://www.upquick.com/videos/test.wmv - - -
> Firefox apparently cannot play .wmv videos. 
> 
> So I used Openshot to convert it to test2.mpeg
> (with a resulting size of 6,981,632) here:
> - - - http://www.upquick.com/videos/test2.mpeg - - -
> Firefox plays this fine, but the file size is huge. 
> 
> Then I used Openshot again to convert it to test3.mpeg
> (with a resulting size of 3,254,272) here:
> - - - http://www.upquick.com/videos/test3.mpeg - - -
> Firefox plays this fine, with less than half the file size. 
> 
> All of the Openshot settings options shown at this link:
> - - - http://www.upquick.com/videos/openshot.jpg - - -
> are very confusing. 
> 
> Surely there must be a more efficient (command line)
> method to convert .wmv (and other) video files. 
> 
> Suggestions? 
> 
> 
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