Are there any movie-playing programs for Linux that will play .ASF multimedia files?

Yes. At this date (March 2001), Damien Chavarria's newest XMPS player (xmps.sourceforge.net/) supports a Linux port of Project Mayo's (projectmayo.com/) OpenDivX Initiative CODEC (COder-DECoder) for Win32 that can parse streaming video files encoded in MS-MPEG-4 aka "ASF" aka "Microsoft Media Player 7" aka "DirectShow" aka "fourcc WMV1" format. The OpenDivX CODEC's native "DivX ;-)" format is closely related, being a true MPEG-4 streaming implementation, as opposed to Microsoft's incompatible MS-MPEG-4 variant.

The XMPS Project refers to XMPS's OpenDivX Linux port as its "win32 DLL plugin". Also, Eugene Kuznetsov's Linux AVI File Library (http://divx.euro.ru/) usually works (as a plug-in for various player applications, or with its own X11/Qt application framework). Morgan Multimedia's proprietary plug-in (http://www.morgan-multimedia.com/) can likewise be used.

Arpad Gereoffy claims a compatible CODEC will be coming for his MPlayer (http://thot.banki.hu/esp-team/ ... more.

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