AVI is an acronym for Audio Video Interleved.
Avi is a container format defined by Microsoft for media files. Avi files are codec independant and can contain VBR video, but only constant bitrate audio as the AVI file uses the audio track for it's time information.
The file(1) command under linux can be used to determine what codecs are used within a avi container file.
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