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

[joe at actionline.com]

After too much fiddling around, and reading lots of reports of
similar problems with firefox from searching google, I even tried
reinstalling firefox (with no success); and finally ended up
rebooting which presented a long list of failed firefox addresses,
and then after restarting firefox, it seems to be working okay (for
the moment).

Why does firefox keep changing things with resulting crashes and
failures like this?  I also notice that the instructions for
disabling hardware acceleration has changed numerous times.  Very
frustrating!


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> Another related problem that I am now having is that many videos
> that used to play fine with Firefox on my Linux Mint box no do not
> work any more since the latest "update" just a couple days ago.
>
> For example: This video works fine on my kubuntu box
> but does not work on my newly updated Linux Mint box.
>
> http://vimeo.com/48956391