- Extension
- .avi
- .sgi
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Video
- Raster Image
- Developer
- Microsoft
- Silicon Graphics
- 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.
- Image saved in the native graphics format used by Silicon Graphics workstations; can store 8 to 32 bits per pixel; also supports Run-length encoding (RLE) compression for reducing the image file size.
- MIME Type
- video/avi
- image/sgi
