AVI ( Audio Video Interleave ) is a multimedia container* format from Microsoft that has been widely used for video playback in the Windows world. AVI was one of the first digital formats to intermix small chunks of video and audio one after the other; hence, its called "interleave".
AVI was the first A/V (Audio/Video) format for Windows. Based on the RIFF** format, AVI is known as a "container format" because it is used for multiple encoding methods, not just one.
For example, AVI video compression methods (video codecs) include DivX, Xvid, Cinepak, Indeo, DV and Motion JPEG. AVI audio includes compressed MP3 and Microsoft's ADPCM (MS ADPCM).
Interesting Facts:
*Multimedia container is a digital file format that holds audio, video and subtitles. **RIFF (Resource Interchange File Format) is a multimedia file format that mixes various audio and video content introduced by Microsoft and IBM in the early 1990s.
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