Could flash media player play wmv/asf format media?

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Could flash media player play wmv/asf format media?

9.1k Views Asked by George2 At 04 April 2025 at 23:29

I have tried to play wmv/asf file in HTML page, but always Windows Media Player is embedded in browser, but Flash Media Player is not embedded.

Here is my code to embed Flash Media Player. I suspect it is because Flash Media player does not support wmv/asf format, so even if I explicitly assign "application/x-shockwave-flash" value, Flash Media player is not displayed. Any ideas?

Does Flash Media player support wmv/asf file?

<html>
<body>
<embed src="http://myserver/videos/123.asf" quality="high" width="480" height="400" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed>
</body>
</html>

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Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams On 22 March 2009 at 08:48

It's not so much that Flash doesn't support wmv/asf; it's more the fact that wmv/asf is not a Flash movie, so you can't pretend that it's one by putting it in the src attribute when you're using the application/x-shockwave-flash type. Try putting a media player Flash movie instead.

Tjcool On 04 March 2015 at 07:06

Mediaelement.js player documentation says, support to wmv and mov, but so far i have not seen any positive or success comments for these formats.Formats like wmv and mov are proprietary, so to play video user need to explicitly install browser based plugins. Latest version of Firefox doesn't support wmv directly, there is a work around.To support mov format,user need to have quicktime player install in the system.

WMV plugin for firefox

Firefox Documentation:

**Theo.T** · Accepted Answer

There's an obvious confusion here : Flash Player is not directly a media player. The source specified in the embed should be a SWF. On the other hand there are media players built in flash (e.g. JW FLV Media Player).
Flash doesn't accept WMV but uses FLV / MPEG-4.
The streaming protocol used is RTMP, not sure how to handle an ASF stream in flash.

Could flash media player play wmv/asf format media?

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