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Audio Video Interleave

Audio Video Interleave (also Audio Video Interleaved and known by its initials and filename extension AVI, usually pronounced /ˌeɪ.viːˈaɪ/) is a proprietary multimedia container format and Windows standard introduced by Microsoft in November 1992 as part of its Video for Windows software. AVI files can contain both audio and video data in an uncompressed…

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Container for
Audio, video
Developed by
Microsoft
Extended from
Resource Interchange File Format
Free format?
Yes
Initial release
November 10, 1992; 33 years ago (1992-11-10)
Internet media type
video/vnd.avi video/avi video/msvideo video/x-msvideo

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Map overview Semantic statistics

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Audio Video Interleave

Nodes49
Edges48
Triples24
Avg. degree1.96
Density0.040816
Components1

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Audio Video Interleave

Top relations

related to history · 10
Audio Video Interleave → CD-ROMs, Lossily, Microsoft, November, Publishers, Super VGA, They, Thirty, Video, Windows
Container for · 1
Audio Video Interleave → Audio, video
Developed by · 1
Audio Video Interleave → Microsoft
Extended from · 1
Audio Video Interleave → Resource Interchange File Format
Filename extension · 1
Audio Video Interleave → .mw-parser-output .monospaced{font-family:monospace,monospace} .avi
Free format? · 1
Audio Video Interleave → Yes
Initial release · 1
Audio Video Interleave → November 10, 1992; 33 years ago (1992-11-10)
Internet media type · 1
Audio Video Interleave → video/vnd.avi video/avi video/msvideo video/x-msvideo
Open format? · 1
Audio Video Interleave → No
Type code · 1
Audio Video Interleave → 'Vfw '

Important terminology Word statistics

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Important terminology

avi video files format file audio data microsoft metadata chunk although container software used also codec riff chunks identified contain

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.
SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Audio Video InterleaveContainer forAudio, video1.00infobox
Audio Video InterleaveDeveloped byMicrosoft1.00infobox
Audio Video InterleaveExtended fromResource Interchange File Format1.00infobox
Audio Video InterleaveFilename extension.mw-parser-output .monospaced{font-family:monospace,monospace} .avi1.00infobox
Audio Video InterleaveFree format?Yes1.00infobox
Audio Video InterleaveInitial releaseNovember 10, 1992; 33 years ago (1992-11-10)1.00infobox
Audio Video InterleaveInternet media typevideo/vnd.avi video/avi video/msvideo video/x-msvideo1.00infobox
Audio Video InterleaveOpen format?No1.00infobox
Audio Video InterleaveType code'Vfw '1.00infobox
Audio Video InterleaveType of formatContainer format1.00infobox
Audio Video InterleaveUniform Type Identifier (UTI)public.avi1.00infobox
Audio Video InterleaveWebsitedocs.microsoft.com/windows/win32/directshow/avi-file-format1.00infobox

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