Audio Video Interleave

A file with the AVI file extension is a commonly used file format developed by Microsoft for storing both video and audio data in a single file.

The AVI format is based on the Resource Interchange File Format (RIFF), a container format used to store multimedia data.

File Extension

.avi

Features

• typically less compressed than other than more popular formats like MOV and MPEG
• may be larger than the same file in other more compressed formats