| From: | Neil Bothwick |
| Date: | 19 Sep 2000 at 19:17:19 |
| Subject: | Re: Anyone hear about ASX ? |
Matt Sealey said,
>> a website my sister is trying to access uses files ending in .ASX do
>> display a realtime webcam. Any idea what these files are and how
>> they're structured ?
> Active Streaming.. umm.. X. It's the Microsoft Media Player format, which
> just happens to have better compression and substantially better quality
> audio than MP3 and nicer compression at the same bitrate than most QuickTime
> codecs.
Isn't it a bastardisation of MPEG4?
> No, you can't read them on the Amiga. Not even if you tried ;)
Or on anything else but Windows.
Don't you just love standards, especially the proprietary ones :<)
Neil
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