PC Player 7 for Pocket PC Player for Pocket PC Tech Pre. Using Windows Media Technologies you can create, deliver, and play streaming media files for applications ranging from news and entertainment to e-commerce and corporate training. Windows Media Technologies components include the Windows Media Tools, Windows Media Services streaming server, and Windows Media Player. Streaming is the term used for media files that, unlike conventional files that must download in their entirety, begin playing while they are being transmitted to the player.
Media files are usually large and take a long time to download.
A 30-minute video would take hours. ASF files solve the problem of long download times by starting playback almost immediately, while the data is being sent. As the name streaming suggests, ASF files flow like a stream. While that is playing, the rest of the data flows down, arriving in time to be played. To make sure playback isn't interrupted if logjams slow the network, the player collects a small backlog of data, called a buffer, before it starts playing.