AVI

File Format
Name	AVI
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Video AVI
Extension(s)	.avi
MIME Type(s)	video/avi, video/x-msvideo, video/vnd.avi, video/msvideo
LoCFDD	fdd000059
PRONOM	fmt/5
Kaitai Struct Spec	avi.ksy
Released	~1992

Audio Video Interleave (AVI) is a multimedia container format originally developed by Microsoft and IBM and based on the RIFF wrapper format. AVI is itself a wrapper that can enclose video and audio bitstreams in many encodings, including Indeo, Sorenson, and Cinepak.

Specifications

• Windows Dev Center → DirectShow → AVI RIFF File Reference
• AVI description Probably extracted from Video for Windows Programmer's Guide
• Copy of Chapter 4: AVI Files from Video for Windows Programmer's Guide 1993
• RIFF-AVI FILE FORMAT
• Documention page from abcAVI Tag Editor site Has links to copies of AVI documentation at bottom.
• DV Data in the AVI File Format Specification, Version 1.01 Microsoft, 1997
• WAVE and AVI Codec Registries (Historic Registry) Hosted by IANA. Implies use of video/vnd.avi as mimetype.

Links

• Wikipedia: Audio Video Interleave
• Overview of Video for Windows, DirectShow (ActiveMovie), and AVI by John F. McGowan, 1996-2004