- Extension
- .aac
- .avi
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Audio
- Video
- Developer
- Bell Labs, Fraunhofer Institute, Dolby Labs, Sony and Nokia
- Microsoft
- Description
- Compressed audio file similar to an .MP3 file, but offers several performance improvements; examples include a higher coding efficiency for both stationary and transient signals, a simpler filterbank, and better handling of frequencies above 16 kHz; maintains quality nearly indistinguishable from the original audio source.
- An AVI file is a file saved in a multimedia container format created by Microsoft. It stores video and audio data that may be encoded in a variety of codecs such as DivX and XviD. AVI files typically use less compression than similar formats such as .MPEG and .MOV.
- MIME Type
- audio/x-aac
- video/avi
