What is AVI Format?

About AVI Format

AVI stands for Audio Video Interleave (or Audio Video Interleaved), is a multimedia container format introduced by Microsoft as part of its video for Windows technology. AVI combines audio and video into a single file in a standard container to allow simultaneous playback. AVI is a derivative of the Resource Interchange File Format (RIFF), which divides a file’s data into blocks, or “chunks.” Each “chunk” is identified by a FourCC tag. An AVI file may carry audio/visual data inside the chunks in virtually any compression scheme, including Full Frame (Uncompressed), Intel Real Time (Indeo), Cinepak, Motion JPEG, Editable MPEG, VDOWave, ClearVideo / RealVideo, QPEG, and MPEG-4 Video.

It’s advantage is it’s simple architecture, due to which AVI runs on a number of different systems like Windows, Mac’s, Linux, Unix and is supported by all most popular web-browsers. The AVI file type is primarily associated with ‘Audio Video Interleave File’. Recent files might be compressed with one or another codecs (like DivX and XviD). It can also be seen with VLC Player, MPlayer, The KMPlayer.

Related Software

Leawo Video Converter (AVI Converter): All-in-one video converting software to convert video and audio among all popular formats. So it is said as the best AVI Converter for users to convert AVI to video of any formats and convert video to AVI for any uses. Thus you can resort to this software to convert AVI to MP4 for video enjoyment on Apple devices, convert AVI to FLV for uploading to online video sharing websites, etc. You can even enjoy 3D video by resorting to 3D video conversion function of the program.

Leawo DVD Ripper (DVD to AVI Converter): Powerful DVD to video ripping software designed for users to watch DVD videos in popular video formats. It can be regarded as the best choice when you need to convert DVD to AVI. So it functions as a powerful DVD to AVI Converter for you to rip DVD to AVI format that is compatible with multiple media players. You can even rip Blu ray to AVI with Leawo null. 3D AVI output is supportable.