What is the difference between .avi and .g4?
- Extension
- .avi
- .g4
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Video
- Raster Image
- Developer
- Microsoft
- Computer Fax Systems (CFS)
- Description
- 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.
- Group 4 (G4) used for black and white lossless compression to maintain high-quality images, commonly used in TIFF format compression by fax machines. A picture is seen as black dots and lines on a blank page; the fewer the dots and lines are, the lesser the file size.
- MIME Type
- video/avi
- image/g4fax
- Sample
- sample.avi
- Wikipedia
- .avi on Wikipedia