.. index:: AVI (Audio Video Interleave)
.. index:: .avi
AVI (Audio Video Interleave)
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Extensions: .avi
Developer: `Microsoft `_
**Support**
BSD-licensed: |yes|
Export: |yes|
Officially Supported Versions:
Reader: AVIReader (:bsd-reader:`Source Code `, :doc:`Supported Metadata Fields `)
Writer: AVIWriter (:bsd-writer:`Source Code `)
Freely Available Software:
- `AVI Reader plugin for ImageJ `_
- `AVI Writer plugin for ImageJ `_
We currently have:
* several AVI datasets
We would like to have:
* more AVI datasets, including:
* files with audio tracks and/or multiple video tracks
* files compressed with a common unsupported codec
* 2+ GB files
**Ratings**
Pixels: |Good|
Metadata: |Outstanding|
Openness: |Fair|
Presence: |Outstanding|
Utility: |Poor|
**Additional Information**
* Bio-Formats can save image stacks as AVI (uncompressed).
* The following codecs are supported for reading:
* Microsoft Run-Length Encoding (MSRLE)
* Microsoft Video (MSV1)
* Raw (uncompressed)
* JPEG
.. seealso::
`AVI RIFF File Reference `_
`AVI on Wikipedia `_