VLC - A recommended player to have Even though Windows Media Player will probably play your WMV files excellently, VLC should be installed on principal and also plays Windows Media on alternative operating systems to Windows. There is really not a whole lot to say about Windows Media Player other than it probably is the best choice to playback WMV files, but there are better options available in terms of just having more stable, reliable, faster or lighter media players. Your ASF or WMV files will most likely be associated with Windows Media Player by default so double-clicking them should begin the playback. Windows Media Player All Windows Operating Systems come loaded with the DirectShow-based Windows Media Player. However, this won't always be the case of course, but it was important to mention before talking about playing these files. Once you open the file you will get a notification asking you to do just that. You can acquire a license (by paying) using Windows Media Player. This means that you will need a license to play back the video. Windows Media DRM Quite a lot of Windows Media files floating around the net these days contain Microsoft's proprietary Windows Media Digital Rights Management protection. But before we look at that, let's talk about DRM for a second. As you would have guessed, a good player for this type of content is Windows Media Player itself. WMA extension, and those with both video and audio may have a. Commonly, these files that store only audio will carry the. Along with video and audio, ASF files can store metadata, much like ID3 tags used by MP3 audio files. The file extensions of Windows Media files may change but generally this is what you will receive. What are ASF / WMV files? If you have gotten an ASF or WMV file then you most likely have a container file that stores video and audio streams, generally Windows Media Video and Windows Media Audio. They are part of the Windows Media framework and therefore playback under a Windows operating system is not very hard at all. ASF stands for Advanced Systems File (or Advanced Streaming File) and WMV is Windows Media Video.

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