What is an AVI file? How do I open it?

AVI format as one of the current mainstream video formats, do you really know him?

　　What file is AVI?

Avi English is all called Audio Video interleaved, that is, an audio-visual interleaved format. is a file format that combines voice and image synchronization. It uses a lossy compression method for the video file, but the compression is relatively high, so although the picture quality is not too good, but its application scope is still very wide. AVI supports 256-color and RLE compression. AVI information is mainly used in multimedia CD-ROM, which is used to save TV, movie and other image information.

It was introduced by Microsoft in 1992 and is known and known to the Windows3.1. The so-called "audio video interleaving" is the video and audio can be interwoven together to play synchronously. The advantage of this video format is that it can be used across multiple platforms, with the disadvantage that it is too bulky, and worse is the compression standard is not uniform, the most common phenomenon is that the high version of Windows Media Players can not play the use of early-coded editing of AVI video format, and the lower version of the Windows Media Player can not play with the latest coding of the AVI format video, so we are in some AVI format video playback is often caused by video coding problems can not play or even play, However, there are some puzzling problems, such as the inability to adjust the playback progress and playback only when there are no images, etc., if the user encounters these problems in the video playback in AVI format, it can be solved by downloading the corresponding decoder.

　　How does AVI file open?

Avi is the mainstream of video files, this format file can be seen everywhere, such as some games, educational software titles, multimedia CD, there will be a lot of AVI. Avi can be played directly in Windows 95 or 98, and it has several formats of its own, the most common being Intel Indeo (R) video r3.2.microsoft.

Because Avi is a mainstream video format, almost all mainstream players support AVI video, such as Storm Audio, QQ audio, PPS, Av star and windows with its own players can directly open the play AVI video. In addition, in the smartphone, use some video player, also can open AVI video.

About AVI is what file and how to open the AVI file I believe that everyone has understood, and hope to help you.