ASF?

[EdT]

Bit fazed as to what an ASF is in relation to an actual file, say a WMV file. Had a look on wikipedia but still unclear (to me!)
Ed

[JamieBeeston]

It's just a steamable video/audio file, that can be played before it's all downloaded.

J

[EdT]

JamieBeeston said:

It's just a steamable video/audio file, that can be played before it's all downloaded.

J

OK fair nuff. I've got Preimere on here which will encode the timeline to a nunber of formats, but no mention of ASF that I can see.

[JamieBeeston]

ASF is a Microsoft technology, so Adobe wont necessarily support / carry it.

J

[ThePassenger]

A .ASF file can also be a wrapper, basically the file has XML in it which points to a different file/port/server where the media is kept and how to connect to it.

If you open a .ram file in notepad you'll see a similar thing in use.

It is, as JB says a Microsoft thing... and pretty much only Microsoft's tools will do it properly.

[EdT]

ah ..wrapper OK. SO, if I make a nicely compressed WMV for example, run a utility, out pops a microsoft branded ASF?
Ed

[EdT]

flip eck. Downloaded a variety of packages now, alwatys end up with WMV as format of choice. How on earth do I make an ASF? I tried MS's own Windows Media Encoder just now, same!

[ThePassenger]

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windo...

Seems to have a link to an exe... it "might" do the job but dunno personally. Never got in to content streaming.