File Extension ASF

File type: APL *Plus/PC APL Shared, Lotus screen font files, Electronic Art Music files and StatGraphics data files

About the ASF file type:

If Windows cannot find the appropriate program associated with .ASF files, then your registry may have errors. Check your Windows registry for errors (includes file association errors).

The ASF file extension is used in identifying compressed video or audio files. The compressed file format had been developed by Microsoft mainly for online data streaming. In order to access the ASF files, users would have to employ the Microsoft Windows Media Player. The ASF file extension is also used in the identification of APL *Plus/PC APL Shared files, StatGraphics data files, Lotus screen font files, and Electronic Art Music files. The Advanced Streaming Format for Microsoft Windows utilizes the ASF file extension for its files. It is used in the storage of compressed video or audio content in various codecs which are played back by means of the Windows Media Player. Files in the said file extension could be streamed as well using Windows Media Services. The ASF file extension is in an extensible format, which means that it had been intended for the storage of multimedia data that are commonly synchronized. The files with the ASF file extension are also capable of supporting advanced multimedia capabilities including extensible kinds of media, scalable media, and component download.


Detailed information for file extension ASF

Category: Video Files, Music Files, Data Files
File format: Proprietary
Open with Windows: Windows Media Player, Windows Media Software Development Kit, Windows Media Services, Microsoft Windows O/S, Lotus
Open with Linux: N/A
The files with the ASF file extension could be generated by means of the Windows Media Software Development Kits capable of supporting, creating and reading other Windows Media content. Media content in the said file extension can stream over the Internet in various ways like the HTTP Protocol. Other types of protocol are also supported. The common file types in files with the ASF file extension are Windows Media Audio and Windows Media Video which could also contain a number of objects that represent metadata such as the album, artist, and album in an audio track.