What's AVI ?

AVI - Audio Video Interleaved (also Audio Video Interleave), known by its initials AVI, is a multimedia container format introduced by Microsoft in November 1992 as part of its Video for Windows technology. AVI files can contain both audio and video data in a file container that allows synchronous audio-with-video playback. Like the DVD video format, AVI files support multiple streaming audio and video, although these features are seldom used. Most AVI files also use the file format extensions developed by the Matrox OpenDML group in February 1996. These files are supported by Microsoft, and are unofficially called "AVI 2.0".

AVI is a derivative of the Resource Interchange Video Format (RIFF), which divides a file's data into blocks, or "chunks." Each "chunk" is identified by a FourCC tag. An AVI file takes the form of a single chunk in a RIFF formatted file, which is then subdivided into two mandatory "chunks" and one optional "chunk".

AVI Video can be played by various video players, but the player must support the codec used to encode the video data. For additional information, view the FileInfo.com Playing AVI Files help article.

How to Play AVI Video on Mac?

On Mac, you may find lots of .avi video format, but Quicktime Player can't recognize such a video format, then how to play avi video on Mac OS X? So easy, just download an AVI Video Converter for Mac . It's a powerful yet easy to use Mac total video converter. Besides converting avi video format on Mac, it also supports any other popular video formats, like wmv, flv, mkv, 3gp, mpg etc. Just several seconds then you could convert avi to mp4 Mac, avi to mov Mac with high quality and fast conversion.

Easy Guide to Convert AVI Video Format on Mac

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Guide: How to Convert AVI Video Format on Mac OS X with AVI Video Converter for Mac

Step 1: Launch the above Mac AVI Video Converter.

Step 2: Add your .avi video files on Mac.

Step 3: Set "1080P HD MP4 Video" as the output formats and specify the path.

Step 4: Click "Start" button to begin conversion, then done!

You see, it's so easy to convert avi to mp4 on Mac. The video now can be played with Quicktime or VLC Player on Mac. You could enjoy 1080P HD movie as you need.

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