File Extension AVI
.AVI
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video/x-msvideo
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File extension AVI stands for Audio Video Interleave and was created by Microsoft. The company introduced AVI to be a part of its technology known as Video for Windows. AVI is a format (multimedia container) and can contain video data as well as audio data within a file container, which allows for the synchronous combination of audio alongside video playback. Just as with the DVD format, AVI files also support several video and audio streams. These features are however, are rarely used. AVI is a special case as it belongs to the RIFF (Resource Interchange File Format) format.
Quite a number of AVI file extensions make use of this file format that were developed by Matrox OpenDML and which Microsoft lends support to. The unofficial name used to describe the file format is "AVI 2.0". The AVI video format consists of data that may have its encoding in a number of codecs. Such codecs include like; XVID codec, Indeo codec, DivX codec, Cinepak codec, MJPEG codec, DV codec, uncompressed YUY2 and RGB codec among others.
The audio codecs that are supported by the file extension AVI are for instance, the AC3 codec, MS ADPCM (Microsoft Differential Pulse Code Modulation), PCM (Uncompressed Pulse Code Modulation) codec among others. This format is not as highly compressed as other similar formats such as .MOV and .MPEG. AVI files are the most commonly used video files on computers. And one can use a number of video players to open them; however, the player should be able to support the codec that has been used to carry out the encoding of the video data.
File extension AVI belong to the video files category. The specification type for these files is Movie, Video and Multimedia File Type. The AVI format is standard and many programs support it. AVI file formats are used directly and some of the programs that can be used to open the format on Windows are, CyberLink PowerDirector, MS Windows Media Player, Apple QuickTime Player, Nullsoft Winamp and movie players that contain supporting codices for the AVI format.
Other programs on the Mac OS such as VideoLAN VLC media player, Apple QuickTime Player, Roxio Toast and movie players containing supporting codes can be used to open the format. On UNIX, VideoLAN VLC media player and XINE multimedia player can be used as well. It is recommended that users run a free registry scan to remove registry errors on the system and a free performance scan to optimize memory and the CPU usage to use the file extension AVI format efficiently.
Quite a number of AVI file extensions make use of this file format that were developed by Matrox OpenDML and which Microsoft lends support to. The unofficial name used to describe the file format is "AVI 2.0". The AVI video format consists of data that may have its encoding in a number of codecs. Such codecs include like; XVID codec, Indeo codec, DivX codec, Cinepak codec, MJPEG codec, DV codec, uncompressed YUY2 and RGB codec among others.
File extension AVI belong to the video files category. The specification type for these files is Movie, Video and Multimedia File Type. The AVI format is standard and many programs support it. AVI file formats are used directly and some of the programs that can be used to open the format on Windows are, CyberLink PowerDirector, MS Windows Media Player, Apple QuickTime Player, Nullsoft Winamp and movie players that contain supporting codices for the AVI format.