Free WMV to AVI converter?

[Skybird]

Any freeware option you recommend? I want to share some FS-videos in WMV format with somebody who needs them on a TV-capable video-DVD. The software I use handles WMV, but some of the videos stutter and seem to run at half speed with the sound running normal, thus the video ends after half the time, and stutters. I want to try to convert them to AVI and then import them, hoping to get rid of the problem.

No pro stuff, please, I onl yneed it for half a dozen videos of 2-3 minutes each, and then probably never again. I tried six (!) tools now that were advertised as "freeware", and after installation told me they are limited in use and are demos only and need to be unlocked. "Freeware?" I call it a straight lie, and trying to talk people into something.

On a sidenote, am I the only one finding google, since a year or a bit longer, more and more useless? It suffers from the same symptom like Ebay. more and more professionals are hijacking both platforms. Sometimes i searched with Google in advanced mode - and after 30 'minutes I still was there with just business adverts. It's slowly but surely becoming more and more worthless.