AVI stands for Audio Video Interleave, which is known as one of the most popular video formats nowadays. In fact, AVI was first introduced to the world by Microsoft in November 1992 as a multimedia format, part of Microsoft Video for Windows technology. AVI files can contain audio data and video data, which are interleaved for the playback.
The video quality of AVI file is usually better. And AVI format is widely supported on a vast range of operating systems and devices. One of the disadvantages of AVI is that the compression standard is not universal. Different compression standard can cause failure while playing an AVI file compressed in early standard on the newest Windows media player. Moreover, an AVI file that contains the same time span of video always takes larger storage space. By converting AVI to other video formats like MP4 will greatly reduce the file size but almost lossless quality. Tweet
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