Advanced Systems Format ASF

This file format is supported by the following versions of Windows Media Player.
- Windows Media Player 7
- Windows Media Player for Windows XP
- Windows Media Player 9
- Windows Media Player 10
- Windows Media Player 11

The Advanced Systems Format (ASF) is preferred Windows Media file format. If you have the appropriate codecs installed on your hard disk, you are able to play video, audio, and mixed recordings which might be compressed with your codecs and stored in an ASF file using Windows Media Player. Alternatively, these recordings is often changed into a streaming file using Windows Media Services or compressed using Windows Media Rights Manager.

The ASF format is usually an extensible format for storing synchronized media data. ASF data may be transmitted over various types of networks using various protocols, and will also be played back originating from a local computer. ASF supports features for example extensible media types, component loading, scalable media types, author-defined stream importance, multilingual support, and rich content and document management.

Typically, ASF files that includes sound recordings which can be loaded with the Windows Media Audio (WMA) codec possess the WMA extension. Likewise, ASF files containing audio, video, or mixed recordings which might be packed making use of the Windows Media Audio (WMA) and Windows Media Video (WMV) codecs develop the WMV extension. If this article in the file comes using an alternative codec, https://www.asf-converter.net/ (www.asf-converter.net`s statement on its official blog) then an file offers the ASF extension.