Import Movies onto Windows Movie Maker?

I have windows movie maker and I have the movie Akira but its a MPEG file it says and it wont import onto windows movie maker anyone know how I can import it onto windows movie maker? or what file it needs to be I just want to cut it into smaller clips

Import Movies onto Windows Movie Maker?
You may need to convert it first. Here is a link that may help on that: http://www.papajohn.org/MM2-Importing-Vi...
Reply:avi and wmv works best for windows movie maker. MPEG doesn't always work very well so it's not best to use that format. So you should convert your mpeg to either avi or wmv.
Reply:Windows Movie Maker is annoying in that every video and/or audio file must be a windows codec. You can convert your video(s) using Total Video Converter