AVI is an audio/video file format that supports streaming of multiple audio and video tracks. It contains a RIFF header, index for chunk offsets, and chunks that carry compressed audio/video data. Some key features of AVI include support on Windows and Mac, use for short video clips, and ability to use various codecs like Motion JPEG and MPEG. Benefits are wide compatibility without special hardware/software, high audio quality, and support for 256 colors and RLE compression.

1. AVI FILE FORMATE
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2. What do you understand by AVI
file format?
• AVI File format stands for (Audio video Interleave). It was
originally only supported on windows platforms but is now also
supported on the Mac Platform. It files are often used for short
video clips that aren’t streamed.

3. AVI File Format Specification

4. List of application that open AVI
file
• VLC Media Player
• Winamp player
• Microsoft Windows Media Player
• Microsoft Windows Video
• etc

5. Structure of Audio video
Interleave File
• Basically, AVI files support multiple streaming audio and video. It file
contains 3 parts such as RIFF: Index, block(chunks), File header.
•Index: It is the offset of the data chunks within the file.
•Header: It contains metadata about the video file(such as frame rate, width and
height.
•Chunks: It carry audio /visual data inside the chunks in virtually any compression
scheme. Including (Time, Motion JPEG, Editable MPEG etc)

6. Header format of AVI file

7. Header format of AVI file

8. Benefits of AVI File
• This file format is the most widely used video format for
advertisement, and short movies etc.
• It does not require any particular hardware device of the
software application for the file to run.
• This file format has high-quality audio fidelity.
• It supports 256 colors and RLE compression.

9. Conclusion
• In this article describe the concept AVI file format. This
format developed by Microsoft corporation. Also describe its
ways to open AVI file, advantages of AVI file. AVI is a special
type of the Microsoft RIFF format. This file format is capable
of encoding video data in a lossless form.