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Old February 27th, 2006, 06:09 AM
Rheve Rheve is offline
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Hi,

Just a quick comment: AVI is in no way a codec! It is a file format.

Short for Audio Video Interleave, AVI is an old file format for Microsoft's Video for Windows standard. Another (newer) one is ASF.
The file format defines how content is stored in the file, not how the content is encoded.

AVI, ASF, MOV, ADIF, ADTS are file formats.
MPEG-4, MPEG-2, MPEG-1, H263, H264, MP3, AAC, OGG, AC3 are codecs.

This is very important to understand, since a "player" can understand the file format (AVI for example) but it can be unable to handle the content stored inside the file format (for example an AC3 audio track, even stored in an AVI file, can not be decoded by the U10)
Regards.