Advantages of using an AVI file
The AVI format is one of the most popular and versatile in computers worldwide. It is widely used for video editing and to offer presentation videos of many games. Today, we will see what is an AVI file? and what are the advantages of using this type of format.
AVI files
AVI (Audio Video Interlieve) files are also known as interleaved audio and video files. These were created by Microsoft, to simultaneously contain audio and video files.
That is, they are storage files where the video and the accompanying sound are saved so that it can be played by different applications. Its extension is .avi and they are made up of a header and a series of data files containing the information necessary for effective multimedia reproduction.
These files require the players to have the appropriate codecs to be able to execute them, since by means of these the player programs can read fragments of files individually, which will then be stored in buffer to show them on the screen without interruption.
Advantages of using an AVI file
Among the main advantages of using AVI files, we have the following:
-The main advantage is that, currently, almost all multimedia players have the codecs necessary to play this type of file, so we can say that it is a universal file.
-AVI files can contain several audio files for the same video file, offering the user the possibility (in many cases) to choose the audio quality they prefer to enjoy their multimedia files.
-They have the possibility of storing the data of the files they contain, thus, during the compression process, medium and even light files can be generated, without losing image quality.
-AVI files are compatible with a huge variety of popular codecs, such as: XviD, DivX and h.264, which greatly increases their versatility.
