What is AVI?
Audio Video Interleave
An older Microsoft video container with broad legacy support but weak compression by modern standards.
Advantages
- Very widely readable
- Good for legacy systems
Limitations
- Large files
- Dated compression
Best used for
Legacy compatibility; convert to MP4 for size and modern playback.
- Extensions
- .avi
- MIME type
- video/x-msvideo
- Compression
- Lossy
Free AVI tools
Video ConverterConvert video between MP4, WEBM, MOV, MKV, and more.Video to MP3Extract the audio track from any video.MP4 ConverterConvert AVI, MOV, MKV, WEBM, FLV, WMV, and more to MP4.Video to GIFTurn a video clip into an animated GIF.AVI to GIFConvert AVI video to animated GIF.Video to Image SequenceExtract video frames as a sequence of JPG or PNG images at a chosen frame rate and size, downloadable individually or as a ZIP.Video CompressorShrink video file size with adjustable quality.Crop VideoCrop the frame of a video.Trim VideoTrim a video to a time range.Resize VideoChange a video's resolution (width and height).Add Video FiltersApply effects like grayscale, sepia, blur, and more to a video.Add Audio to VideoAdd or replace the soundtrack of a video with an audio file.