Online AVI converter
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Make use of our complimentary online converter for an effortless and seamless conversion of your videos to avi format. The avi file you obtain will be nearly identical in size to your original video file. Simply upload your video and initiate the conversion process by pressing the 'convert' button.
How to convert a avi file?
Step 1
Upload an-file
You can select the file you wish to convert from your computer, Google Drive, Dropbox or just drag and drop it onto the page.
Step 2
Select «to avi»
Choose avi or any other of the 200+ supported formats that you wish to convert to.
Step 3
Download your avi file
Please wait for the conversion to be completed, then click on the download button to get your converted file in the avi format.
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Converting avi is fast and easy
Just drag and drop your avi files onto the webpage, and you'll have the capability to convert them over 250 different file formats, all without the need to register, provide an email address, or include a watermark.
Safe avi Conversion
Immediately upon uploading your avi files, we delete them without delay. Converted files are then removed after 24 hours. Additionally, we ensure that all file transfers are secure through advanced SSL encryption.
No Software Installation Required
There's no need to go through the inconvenience of installing any software. We conveniently handle all avi to {format2} conversions in the cloud, which implies that none of your computer's resources will be consumed in the process.
Microsoft Audio/Visual Interleaved
| Extension | .avi |
| Category | 🔵 video |
| Programs | 🔵 ALLPlayer 🔵 Apple QuickTime Player 🔵 Microsoft Windows Media Player |
| Main program | 🔵 Video Lan VLC Player |
| Description | 🔵 Honestly, AVI is a bit of a relic. Microsoft pushed it out in '92, and while it was a big deal then, it's basically the 'grandfather' of video containers now. It doesn't actually do any of the encoding itself; it’s just a digital wrapper meant to keep audio and video from drifting apart. The quality is totally dependent on whatever codec you've stuffed inside—use a good one and it’s fine, use a bad one and you’re stuck with a 'crunchy' video that’s somehow still a massive file. |
| Technical details | 🔵 The real technical headache with AVI is that it’s just too simple. It’s a very linear structure that usually only juggles two streams. Unlike modern formats like MPEG or MOV, it doesn't have any of those 'smart' metadata tricks or predictive compression logic. It’s a 'hands-off' format, meaning it leans entirely on external codecs to handle the dirty work. You’re constantly stuck in a balancing act: go lossless and you'll watch your hard drive space vanish in minutes, or go lossy and pray the artifacts don't ruin the shot. To be blunt, it’s a dinosaur. Because it lacks the efficiency of modern containers, the files are almost always way bulkier than they have any right to be. It’s a reliable old workhorse for legacy systems, but in 2026, it’s mostly just a storage-hogging reminder of how far we’ve come. |
| Developer | 🔵 Microsoft |
| MIME type | 🔵 video/avi 🔵 video/vnd.avi 🔵 video/msvideo 🔵 video/x-msvideo |