Convert AVI to MP4
With our free online converter, you can convert avi files to mp4 as well as a variety of other formats.
Converting your avi file to mp4 is easy with these steps.
Converting your mp4 file to avi is easy with these steps.
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Converting avi to mp4
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 Video File
| Extension | .mp4 |
| Category | 🔵 video |
| Programs | 🔵 Microsoft Windows Media Player 🔵 VLC media player 🔵 MPlayer 🔵 Eltima Elmedia Player 🔵 Winamp 🔵 Apple QuickTime Player 🔵 Apple iTunes |
| Description | 🔵 MP4 is one of the popular digital multimedia formats. The original name is MPEG-4 Part 14. It is one of the most versatile digital multimedia formats because it can play both video and audio files. Besides, you can use MP4 file formats for many other purposes, such as streaming over the Internet and storing still images. The characteristics of MP4 files include but are not limited to:
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| Technical details | 🔵 How to create and how to open an MP4 fileYou can create an MP4 file by recording video with your device or by using certain software. You can also use various converters to convert videos to MP4 file formats. How to Open an MP4 File Almost all the video players open an MP4 file because MP4 is a standardized digital file format. You can open an MP4 file in several ways, such as using either the Windows Media PlayerorVLC Media Player. Some of the others that can open the MP4 file are QuickTime (for macOS), MPlayer, VLC Media Player, and X Codec Pack. Which other formats MP4 can be converted into and whyMP4 is widely used as a video file format because of the efficient video compression scheme that prevents data loss when converting. Besides, you can use a lot of tools to seamlessly convert your MP4 file to another file format. Some of the popular video formats are:
MP4 is supported by almost any device that is able to play video. However sometimes a user might need to convert it to another format. MKV is well known for being able to store a huge amount of information like dozens of audio streams and subtitles. WMV format provides better compression than MP4 does. |
| Developer | 🔵 Moving Picture Experts Group |
| MIME type | 🔵 audio/mp4 🔵 video/mp4 |