- Extension
- .avi
- .xbm
- Format
- Binary
- Text
- Category
- Video
- Raster Image
- Developer
- Microsoft
- The X Consortium
- 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.
- Bitmap image used by the X Window System (X11), a graphical user interface (GUI) used to manage networked client-server computers; stores a monochrome image that is written as plain text in the C programming language.
- MIME Type
- video/avi
- image/x-xbitmap
