windows movie maker question

[mintyed]

is there a movie maker application that can read play and edit Windows Movie Maker (WMM) files.

As kdenlive is very similar in look and feel I wonder if there is an ADD-ON to convert, edit and run WMM files (like OpenOffice does a good Job converting and reading MS Office files). this would be great for Linux users of all shapes and sizes, especially us newbies.

[mintyed]

You could start with VLC, below is part of the Synaptic Description.

VLC is the VideoLAN project's media player. It plays MPEG, MPEG2, MPEG4,
DivX, MOV, WMV, QuickTime, mp3, Ogg/Vorbis files, DVDs, VCDs, and multimedia
streams from various network sources.

You not get what i mean. I need an app like windows movie maker to make and convert there files so i can use and edit them. i know that any video player can play them usually.

[rlindsey0]

Have you looked into Avidemux, Cinelerra, or Kino? Or have you considered seeing if you could run WMM in Linux under WINE?

[kwisher]

Winff is a nice GUI front-end for ffmpeg. It should be able to convert your movie maker file to avi or dv format so that you can edit them in Linux.

[mintyed]

Thanks all. I will let you know how i get on.