AVI to MPG

Convert AVI to MPG to get small size file; AVI to MPG converting software.

If we have AVI format files and want to compress it for getting smaller size file, we can convert to MPG format for the limits of AVI and the advantage of MPG.

The abbreviation "AVI" stands for "Audio Video Interlaced". This video format was created by Microsoft, which was introduced along with Windows 3.1. AVI, the proprietary format of Microsoft's "Video for Windows" application, merely provides a framework for various compression algorithms such as Cinepak, Intel Indeo, Microsoft Video 1, Clear Video or IVI.

AVI is a file format, like MP3 or JPG. But unlike these formats, AVI is a container format, meaning it can contain video audio compressed using many different combinations of codecs. So while MP3 and JPG can only contain a certain kind of compression (MPEG Audio Layer 3 and JPEG), AVI can contain many different kinds of compression (e.g. DivX video + WMA audio or Indeo video + PCM audio), as long as a codec is available for encoding/decoding. AVI all look the same on the "outside", but on the "inside", they may be completely different. There is no such thing as a "normal" thing, and is probably the most common video format around (although its popularity wavered a few years ago, but has since come back with a vengeance due to the emergence of DivX).

MPG can be either an abbreviation for MPEG or is used as a file extention for MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 video data.

MPEG stands for Moving Picture Expert Group, is the name of family of standards (joint of the International Organization for Standardization [ISO]) used for coding audio and video data in a digital compressed format including data transmission across digital networks. The major advantage of MPEG compared to other video and audio coding formats is that MPEG files are much smaller for the same quality (eg, mp3 size is about 1:10 compared to Audio CD).

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