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. Each chunk is identified by a FourCC tag. Its advatage is a simple architecture, due to which AVI runs on a number of different systems like Windows, Mac, Linux, Unix and is supported by all of the most popular web-browsers.'ĪVI is a derivative of the Resource Interchange File Format (RIFF), which divides a file's data into blocks, or chunks.

AVI combines audio and video into a single file in a standard container to allow simultaneous playback. Developed by Microsoft in 1992, it has become so widespread that many people consider it the de-facto standard for storing video and audio information on PC. Download the latest version of QuickTimeĪVI stands for Audio Video Interleave.MOV files and later version of QuickTime Player, such as QuickTime Pro allows the user to edit and export. QuickTime player which was developed and created by Apple allows a user to open and play. MOV files use a proprietary compression algorithm and each track that is held within the file is made up of an encoded media stream or a reference to a media stream that is located in another file - this allows the embedding of existing media. This flexibility makes this file format very popular for music and video editing. MOV files are capable of storing two or more tracks which can be video, audio, text, graphics or effects.

The file format was developed by Apple as was QuickTime Player, it is compatible with both the Microsoft and MacOS platforms. The MOV file format is most commonly associated with Apple and the QuickTime video clip.

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