I normally don’t do technical how-to posts like this, so if this bores you, please just skip it and move on.

That said, I am assuming that most of you have arrived here by Googling the phrase, “convert GoToMeeting WMV file,” or, “Error: No codec available to render this file,” or, “The requested video codec is not installed on this system,” or maybe, “OMG WTF GTM.” The basic gist is that you want to use your GoToMeeting/GoToWebinar WMV file in the way that WMV files were meant to be used… and you can’t.

As it turns out, GoToMeeting WMV files aren’t WMV files in the way you’re used to. They use the GTM codec, which apparently no one supports but GTM. There are two ways to get around this.

If you haven’t started recording your GoToMeeting yet, take the advice from this post and save yourself some heartache later: Continue reading →