You can also play AVI on some, but not all DVD players. Click here for more information on how to play WMV How to Play AVI on MacĪlthough all Mac computers should be able to play an AVI with AVI player software, you may need to install a playback component if you haven’t already done so. Most AVIs contain a DivX, and require a quicktime component to be used on a Mac.
AVI has become a de-facto standard because it is widely supported on hardware and by operating systems. An AVI file can carry audio/visual data inside in almost any compression scheme, including: MPEG-4, XviD, DivX and others.
AVI, an abbreviation for Audio Video Interleave, is a multimedia container format developed by Microsoft in 1992.
