MLP to ASF

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Convert MLP to ASF

MLP to ASF Converter converts MLP to ASF. The software is an ALL-IN-ONE audio converter that supports more than 100 audio and video files.

MLP to ASF Converter supports batch conversion and is full compatible with Vista and Windows 7.

Free Download MLP to ASF Converter
Install the software by instructions
Launch MLP to ASF Converter
Choose MLP Files

Click "Add Files" to choose MLP files and add them to conversion list.

Choose one or more MLP file(s) you want to convert and then click "Open".
Choose "to ASF"
Convert MLP to ASF

Click "Convert" to convert MLP files to ASF format.

The software is converting MLP files to ASF format.
Play and Browse ASF File

Right-click converted file and choose "Play Destination" to play the outputted ASF file, choose "Browse Destination Folder" to open Windows Explorer to browse the ASF file.
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What is MLP?
MLP (Meridian Lossless Packing) is a lossless coding system for use on high-quality digital audio data originally represented as linear PCM. High quality audio these days implies high sample rates, large word sizes and multichannel.

The MLP is used by Meridian codec. Audio compression used on DVD video discs.

MLP performs lossless compression of up to 63 audio channels including 24-bit material sampled at rates as high as 192kHz.

Lossless compression has many applications in the recording and distribution of audio. In designing MLP we have paid a lot of attention to the application of lossless compression to data-rate-limited ransmission (e.g. storage on DVD), to the option of constant data rate in the compressed domain and to aspects that impact on mastering and authoring. MLP was targeted to provide:

Good compression of both peak and average data rates.
Use of both fixed and variable-rate data-streams.
Automatic savings on bass-effects channels.
Automatic savings on signals that do not use all of the available bandwidth (e.g. sampled at 96kHz).
Automatic savings when channels are correlated.
Comprehensive metadata.
Hierarchical access to multichannel information.
Modest decoding requirements.

MLP provides for up to 63 channels, but applications tend to be limited by the available data rate. To aid compatibility, MLP uses a hierarchical stream structure containing multiple substreams and hierarchical additional data. With this stream structure decoders need only access part of the stream to playback subsets of the audio. Suitable use of the substreams also allows 2-channel compatibility; a low-complexity decoder can recover a stereo mix from a multichannel stream. Figure 1 gives an overview of the process of losslessly compressing a stream containing multiple audio channels and auxiliary data onto a disc.

What is ASF?
Advanced Systems Format (formerly Advanced Streaming Format, Active Streaming Format) is Microsoft's proprietary digital audio/digital video container format, especially meant for streaming media. ASF is part of the Windows Media framework.

ASF is based on serialized objects which are essentially byte sequences identified by a GUID marker.

The format does not specify how (i.e. with which codec) the video or audio should be encoded; it just specifies the structure of the video/audio stream. This is similar to the function performed by the QuickTime, AVI, or Ogg container formats. One of the objectives of ASF was to support playback from digital media servers, HTTP servers, and local storage devices such as hard disk drives.

The most common filetypes contained within an ASF file are Windows Media Audio (WMA) and Windows Media Video (WMV). Note that the file extension abbreviations are different from the codecs which have the same name. Files containing only WMA audio can be named using a .WMA extension, and files of audio and video content may have the extension .WMV. Both may use the .ASF extension if desired.

ASF files can also contain objects representing metadata, such as the artist, title, album and genre for an audio track, or the director of a video track, much like the ID3 tags of MP3 files. It supports scalable media types and stream prioritization; as such, it is a format optimized for streaming.

The ASF container provides the framework for digital rights management in Windows Media Audio and Windows Media Video. An analysis of an older scheme used in WMA reveals that it is using a combination of elliptic curve cryptography key exchange, DES block cipher, a custom block cipher, RC4 stream cipher and the SHA-1 hashing function.

ASF container-based media is usually streamed on the internet either through the MMS protocol or the RTSP protocol.