Video Games Why ASF Files Are Popular and Its Relationship with DVDs

,Advice Since the DVD player software for PC are hot on sale and so many people tend to buy DVD discs to watch movie and record video and audio work they beloved, people may require some software to help them to convert different file formats onto DVD discs. Therefore, as a format, not compatible with most DVDs, ASF file belongs to such kind. Certainly, people have to buy some software for their large reserving of ASF files. Short for Advanced System Format ( formerly Advanced Streaming Format, Active Streaming Format ), ASF is Microsoft’s propriety digital audio/video container format, especially for streaming media. It is part of the Windows Media framework.

The core of Windows Media Service is ASF which is a data format. Many audio, video, images and other multimedia information transmitted through this format in the form of data packets to realize the streaming multimedia content distribution. Wherein the content transmitted over the network is called ASF Stream. It is considered the most benefit of ASF is that it support any compression and decompression which gives it lots of flexibility. At the same time, any underlying network transport protocol is applicative for ASF.

The above point is not the only reason that it is popular on market. The merit to send real-produced program is its another big benefit. Like JPG, MPG, ASF is a file type too. But it is designed for synchronizingly transmission over IP networks with multimedia data. As a result, it is common to see ASF files from online website. ASF files can be either the regular file familiar to us, or continuous data stream generated by a encoding device. Due to these, this format is largely used in transmitting both prerecorded programs and real-produced program. Usually, under the broadcast service, users commonly cannot control the broadcast, they only can watch. However, watching ASF file videos online, people can stop, pause, fast forward, rewind the broadcast.

The data rate of ASF files run between 28.8Kpbs to 3Mbps. People can select a suitable rate to achieve Video On DVD and broadcast, according to their application environment and network conditions. What’s more, the ASF format files only take up less storage space compared with other formats. For example, if the player can reach 25 frames/s, according to a 300Kb/s video capture rate, one hour video file will only demand 108MB space which means that a 640MB CD can store nearly six hours of ASF file.

Talking about so many ASF files advantages, you may ask can it be played on DVD. The answer is “yes” since there are so many intelligent genus. I believe, putting ASF into DVD has become a piece of cake since the high developed DVD software industry. One solution is VLC which plays a wide variety of video formats, including VCDs and DVDs. Another way would be a certain DVD converting software to help you. Searching online you would find lots of different converter software with various functions. Remember you need to choose the one which can convert ASF files to other formats for your, DVD, your PC or your portable devices. Keep in min!

The DVD software industry has almost cover all aspects of DVD that people need, no matter the DVD video converter for Windows or the software for windows 8 system. All right, hoping you can get a suitable one.