ASF Support in Media Foundation
Media Foundation supports media files in the Advanced Systems Format (ASF):
- Windows Media Video (WMV files)
- Windows Media Audio (WMA files)
Media Foundation provides several objects for reading and writing ASF files. These objects are provided in two different architectural layers.
First, the pipeline layer contains objects that work inside the Media Foundation pipeline and conform to the APIs defined by the pipeline. The ASF pipeline layer contains:
- ASF Media Source: Parses ASF files and delivers the audio/video data packets.
- Windows Media Codecs: Decode or encode Windows Media audio or video streams.
- ASF Media Sink: Receives data packets and writes an ASF file.
Second, the WM Container layer provides low-level control over parsing and writing an ASF file. The pipeline layer uses WMContainer internally. Applications can also use WMContainer for low-level ASF parsing and writing.
In this section
| Topic | Description |
|---|---|
| ASF File Structure |
Overview of the ASF file structure and the objects provided by Media Foundation to work with ASF files. |
| Pipeline Layer ASF Components |
Describes how to parse and author ASF files using the pipeline layer. |
| WMContainer ASF Components |
Describes how to parse and author ASF files using the WMContainer layer. |
For detailed information about the structure of an ASF file, see the ASF specification, which can be downloaded from this Microsoft website.