Xvid (formerly 'XviD') is a video codec library following the MPEG-4 video coding standard, specifically MPEG-4 Part 2 Advanced Simple Profile (ASP). AVI files can contain both audio and video data in a file container that allows synchronous audio-with-video playback.
Video/vnd.avi, video/avi, video/msvideo, video/x-msvideoĪudio Video Interleaved (also Audio Video Interleave), known by its initials AVI, is a multimedia container format introduced by Microsoft in November 1992 as part of its Video for Windows software.
