Okay so here are the details of my problem. I have a video that is a .wmv format media info says: 1 Video stream: VC-1 (WMV3)
1 Audio stream:WMA
I'm guessing these are the codecs? I'm a huge noob when it comes to video editing and I had no idea how complicated it can be. I have downloaded and installed virtualdub. I have downloaded and extracted both plugin folders to the virtualdub folder. I have downloaded the ffdshow x64 and clicked almost everything during the initial install and certainly anything that looked helpful (all the wmv formats, etc). I think part of my problem is that I don't know how to use this? Anyway I still cannot seem to get Virtualdub to read the file. when I try and do the conversion from 4:3 to 16:9 at first it said "ASF files not supported. but I fixed that. Now when I go to preview the video it says "missing codec" is there an easy way to solve this issue?

I am tech savvy but like I said working with videos, editing software, codecs, etc is very new to me

Thanks in advance for your help

J