AVI files can contain both audio and video data in a file container that allows synchronous audio-with-video playback.
It is intended to serve as a universal format for storing common multimedia content, like movies or TV shows.Īudio 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 software. The Matroska Multimedia Container is an open standard free container format, a file format that can hold an unlimited number of video, audio, picture, or subtitle tracks in one file.