Convert AVI to M4A
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Converting avi to m4a
Microsoft Audio/Visual Interleaved
| Extension | .avi |
| Category | 🔵 video |
| Programs | 🔵 ALLPlayer 🔵 Apple QuickTime Player 🔵 Microsoft Windows Media Player |
| Main program | 🔵 Video Lan VLC Player |
| Description | 🔵 AVI stands for Audio and Video Interleave. It has an extension written as .avi, and users use this same format to store audio and video on their PC, which was developed by Microsoft in 1992 for its Video for Windows project. It allows the simultaneous playback by keeping video and audio into a single file. The simple architecture of .avi format will enable it to run on various operating systems such as Windows, Mac, Linux, Unix. It is supported by multiple web players as well. |
| Technical details | 🔵 AVI format uses Resource Interchange File Format (RIFF) support, where the real data is stored into chunks, and each chunk gets recognized by a FourCC tag. Out of these individual chunks, the first one can be recognized by the hdrl tag, and it can decode the chunk containing metadata for the video. The second chunk gets identified by the movi tag, and it includes the actual audio and visual data which makes up the AVI movie. It uses less compression rather than the MOV and MPEG file formats. |
| Developer | 🔵 Microsoft |
| MIME type | 🔵 video/avi 🔵 video/vnd.avi 🔵 video/msvideo 🔵 video/x-msvideo |
MPEG-4 Audio Layer
| Extension | .m4a |
| Category | 🔵 audio |
| Programs | 🔵 Microsoft Windows Media Player 🔵 VLC media player 🔵 MPlayer 🔵 Amarok 🔵 Winamp 🔵 Apple QuickTime Player 🔵 Apple iTunes |
| Description | 🔵 M4A stands for MPEG A Audio. It is a type of audio file type that is encoded using Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) or Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC). M4A was developed to help you store a wide range of file types, such as audiobooks, podcasts, and songs. That is in addition to the fact that it is a better competitor to MP3. Some of the benefits or advantages of using M4A are:
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| Technical details | 🔵 How to create and how to open an M4A fileYou can create and open an M4A file in many ways. The simplest way is to use an Apple voice recorder or convert another audio format into M4A. There are several programs and applications out there that support the playback of M4A files. Some of them are Winamp, VLC Media Player, Windows Media Player, and QuickTime. The other programs that open M4A files are Microsoft Zune, Elmedia Player (for Mac users), Apple iTunes, Rhythmbox (for Linux users), and iPad. Which other formats M4A can be converted into and whyM4A files may be a strong competitor to the MP3 file formats. Yet, this type of digital audio file format has many disadvantages, such as appearing as a data file (instead of a media or document), and low compatibility with some devices. So, here are some of the other formats or alternatives to the M4A file format:
One major reason why you might need to convert your M4A file is because it is a file extension, which means that only specific applications can open it. MP3 is supported by almost any device. You may also want to convert it to AAC because it produces better sound quality, even at low bitrates. |
| Developer | 🔵 Apple |
| MIME type | 🔵 audio/mpeg |