Talk:Advanced Systems Format

Does ASF support exist in any software for GNU/Linux, *BSD, and Unix?

Yes, via ffmpeg's libavformat or other demuxers in the VLC Media Player, MPlayer, and similar. ffmpeg also supports many of the codecs usually encapsulated within ASF, including older WMA and WMV codecs, as well as MS-MPEG4. --Kiand 19:18, 25 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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mplayer can work with asf files.

ASF is not Advanced Streaming Format

See Microsoft's site

It used to be called Advanced Streaming Format. Ive moved the page to the current name now. Thanks. -- jeffth e jiff 18:47, 3 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

very apt, thanks --vineeth 06:04, 4 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Clarification on "structure" needed

This sentence needs clarification:

The format does not specify how (i.e. with which codec) the video or audio should be encoded; it just specifies the structure of the video/audio stream.

What aspects of the structure are defined by asf? x bytes of video, y bytes of sound? Number of subtitle streams? Frame types (e.g. sequence p fames and b frames or whatever)? --Slashme 07:52, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]