What is an AVI file?
Developed by Microsoft, the AVI (Audio Video Interleave) is a container format that is capable of storing multimedia. It is a successor of the RIFF (Resource Interchange File Format) and was introduced in 1992, one year after the latter’s introduction. The AVI format can host data encoded in a variety of codecs. These can be accessed by a lot of multimedia players, provided they have support for the particular encoding format.
AVI format is accessible even to this day, and you will find a lot of multimedia files, especially video files wrapped in this format. But this format uses a much more generous compression technique than its competitors such as MPEG and MOV resulting in bigger-than-normal file size.
How to Open AVI Files
How to Make AVI Files
Below are some software programs that can open AVI files. Download one to open your file now.