Talk:Advanced Systems Format

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Unix-like

Does ASF support exist in any software for GNU/Linux, *BSD, and Unix? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.212.100.83 (talk) 2004-11-18T04:30:48

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.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.203.150.87 (talk) 2004-11-25T05:33:58

ASF is not Advanced Streaming Format

See Microsoft's site—Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.57.45.164 (talk) 2006-02-03T21:20:09

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]

The most common filetypes contained within an ASF file are Windows Media Audio (WMA) and Windows Media Video (WMV). Note that the file extension abbreviations are similar in name to the codecs of the same name but are different things. Does the word filetype in this sentence mean that the container doesn't contain WM*-encoded streams but entire "files", i.e. subcontainers which in turn contain streams? I'm confused.--87.162.63.109 22:14, 24 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wget PRO, asfrecorder

These are (or were) tools to download mms:// streams; should they be mentioned in the article? sendmoreinfo (talk) 10:13, 26 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Italic text —Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.40.31.238 (talk) 16:58, 29 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

History is incomplete

In which year the ASF container was invented, or released? Certainly when the "Active-Mania" was born (Active Movie, Active Desktop, ActiveX, Active Setup, Active Streaming Format, etc etc etc). 189.121.196.155 (talk) 06:28, 15 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]