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Chapter 8. Application Services > Viewers and Players
8.4. Viewers and Players
The media applications can be used to play streaming or file-based audio or video content. You can use the Application Manager’s open method to handle common file types.
8.4.1. View File
There is no specific view file service; it’s just the general case of using the Application Manager’s open method, where the content target is unknown. As shown in Section 8.1.2, simply call the Application Manager with a target value that refers to either web-based or file-based content:
