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AVI file format

Extension.avi
Categoryvideo
Programs
ALLPlayer
Apple QuickTime Player
Microsoft Windows Media Player
Main programVideo Lan VLC Player
Description..avi (Audio Video Interleave)
The .avi format is a multimedia container format introduced by Microsoft as part of its Video for Windows technology. AVI files can contain both audio and video data in a file container that allows synchronous audio-with-video playback.
Technical detailsThe `.avi` (Audio Video Interleave) format, created by Microsoft in 1992, is a multimedia container that synchronizes audio and video playback. It can house different codec combinations, which influence the video's quality and size. Typically, AVI files contain one audio and one video stream, and they depend on external codecs for compression, supporting both lossy and lossless types. This leads to variable file quality and sizes, usually larger than more efficiently compressed formats like MPEG or MOV.
MIME type
video/avi
video/vnd.avi
video/msvideo
video/x-msvideo