.AVI File Extension

Are you having difficulty opening a file that ends with .AVI? Such files can be executed only by certain programs. If you cannot open the .AVI file, it can be due to the following reasons: either you do not have an appropriate program to open it, or your file association is corrupted. For more information about this extension, please read the article below.

What is a .AVI file?

.AVI file belongs to the category of Video Files used in operating systems such as Windows 11, 10, Windows 7, Windows 8 / 8.1, Windows Vista, Windows XP.

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Developer: Microsoft

File Type: Audio Video Interleave File

Category: Video Files

Format: Binary

.AVI file is associated with Audio Video Interleave File developed by Microsoft, has a Binary Format and belongs to Video Files category.

An AVI file is a video file saved in Microsoft's Audio Video Interleave (AVI) multimedia container format. AVI stores video and audio data encoded in different codecs, such as the popular DivX and XviD.

Additional data

AVI format was created in a container format called Resource Interchange File Format (RIFF), and it officially debuted back in 1992. The AVI video format stores high format video/audio using less compression. The video quality is relatively high, but the size of AVI files becomes exceptionally high.

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