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AVI

File Format
Name	AVI
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Video AVI
Extension(s)	.avi
MIME Type(s)	video/vnd.avi
PRONOM	fmt/5

AVI, standing for Audio/Video Interleaved, is a video container format originally developed by Microsoft and IBM and based on the RIFF wrapper format. AVI is itself a wrapper that can enclose video bitstreams in many encodings, including Indeo, Sorenson, and Cinepak.

References

• Audio Video Interleave : Wikipedia
• [http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/6/1/161ba512-40e2-4cc9-843a-923143f3456c/DVAVSPEC.RTF DV Data in the AVI File Format

Specification, Version 1.01] Microsoft, 1997

• AVI description Probably extracted from Video for Windows Programmer's Guide
• RIFF-AVI FILE FORMAT
• Documention page from abcAVI Tag Editor site Has links to copies of AVI documentation at bottom.
• Overview of Video for Windows, DirectShow (ActiveMovie), and AVI by John F. McGowan, 1996-2004
• AVI, from Library of Congress resource on Sustainability of Digital Formats
• WAVE and AVI Codec Registries (Historic Registry) Hosted by IANA. Implies use of video/vnd.avi as mimetype.