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Newer page: version 3 Last edited on Saturday, June 18, 2005 12:58:42 am by AristotlePagaltzis Revert
Older page: version 2 Last edited on Friday, June 17, 2005 5:37:03 pm by JohnMcPherson Revert
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 [AVI] is an acronym for __A__udio __V__ideo __I__nterleaved. 
  
-Avi is a container format defined by Microsoft for media files . Avi files are codec independent and can contain [VBR] video, but only constant bitrate audio as the AVI file uses the audio track for its time information
+[AVI] is a media container FileFormat defined by MicrosoftCorporation . It is CoDec- independent. Since it relies on the audio track for timing, audio can only be encoded with [CBR], whereas video may be [VBR]
  
-The file(1) command under linux can be used to determine what codecs are used within a avi container file. 
+Some versions of file(1) can determine what CoDecs are used in a particular [AVI] file. 
  
-Compare [Ogg|OggVorbis] 
+Compare [Ogg | OggVorbis].