AVI
From Just Solve the File Format Problem
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.
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Identification
Files begin with bytes 'R' 'I' 'F' 'F' ?? ?? ?? ?? 'A' 'V' 'I' 0x20.
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.
Sample files
Links
- Wikipedia: Audio Video Interleave
- Overview of Video for Windows, DirectShow (ActiveMovie), and AVI by John F. McGowan, 1996-2004
