ASF file format is designed to store and play digital media streams over the network. How to play ASF video files on your computer? 5 best free ASF players for Windows and Mac will be introduced in this post.
ASF stands for Advanced Systems Format. It’s a container format that stores audio, video, images, URLs, and scripts, which is designed to stream media online. If you have some ASF videos on your PC and want to play them without buffering, don’t worry, this post lists 5 best free ASF players out there (Want to extract MP3 from a video? Try MiniTool MovieMaker).
#1. Windows Media Player
The first ASF player you can use is Windows Media Player. It’s a built-in media player on Windows, which supports playing videos, audio files, and viewing images. It supports a wide range of media formats including ASF, MPG, MPEG, 3GP, AVCHD, AVI, WMV, MP4, WMA, AAC, MP3, MIDI, and many more.
Besides that, Windows Media Player allows you to rip files from DVD and burn music and videos to DVD.
If you encounter the problem “Windows Media Player cannot play the file” when trying to play ASF videos, you can download and install required codecs on your computer or try the following third-party ASF file players.
#2. VLC media player
The second ASF player is VLC media player. It’s the best free and open-source multimedia player available for Windows, macOS, Linux, and other platforms. It can play video and audio files in any format and stream online videos from YouTube.
VLC media player can also be used to convert ASF files to another format and editing videos by cutting, rotating, and cropping.
Fail to stream videos online with VLC? Read this post: [9 Ways] How to Fix the VLC Error “Your Input Can’t be Opened”
#3. PotPlayer
The third ASF video player is PotPlayer. It’s a free, lightweight video player for Windows and supports a variety of video & audio formats and subtitle formats. This video player can play HD, UHD videos smoothly without losing quality. Another great feature of PotPlayer is that it lets you bookmark your favorite scene when playing videos.
PotPlayer supports various types of 3D glasses, so you can use it to watch 3D movies on your computer.
Related article: Top 5 3D Players to Play 3D Movies on Windows and Mac
#4. Winamp
The fourth ASF player is Winamp. It’s a free media player with a simple and customizable interface. It supports various audio playback (AAC, OGG, MP3, WAV, MIDI, etc.) and video playback (ASF, MP4, MPEG, AVI, etc.).
Winamp works on Windows, macOS, Android, and DOS.
#5. Omni Player
The fifth ASF file player is Omni Player. It’s a versatile video player for Mac. You can use it to control the video playback, play 4K/1080p/720p videos, load external subtitles, stream online videos, take a screenshot, etc.
If you don’t want to install an ASF player on your Mac computer, you can convert ASF to MP4 online and open the converted file with QuickTime.
Conclusion
To open ASF files on your computer, you can use the above ASF players or convert ASF to the most common formats such as MP4, MKV, AVI, MOV, etc.