Advanced Systems Format ASF

This file format is held up by this 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 possess the appropriate codecs installed on your computer, you can play video, audio, and mixed recordings which are compressed with such codecs and residing in an ASF file using Windows Media Player. Alternatively, these recordings can be converted to a streaming file using Windows Media Services or compressed using Windows Media Rights Manager.

The ASF format can be an extensible format for storing synchronized media data. ASF data may be transmitted over various networks using various protocols, and will also be played back at a local computer. ASF supports features like extensible media types, component loading, scalable media types, author-defined stream importance, multilingual support, and https://www.asf-converter.net/ (a cool way to improve) rich content and document management.

Typically, ASF files that contain sound recordings which are rich in the Windows Media Audio (WMA) codec provide the WMA extension. Likewise, ASF files containing audio, video, or mixed recordings which have been packed while using Windows Media Audio (WMA) and Windows Media Video (WMV) codecs hold the WMV extension. If the information of your file is packed using some other codec, then an file has the ASF extension.