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#HOW TO OPEN AVI FILES ON MAC MAC OS#
#HOW TO OPEN AVI FILES ON MAC INSTALL#
#HOW TO OPEN AVI FILES ON MAC CODE#

#HOW TO OPEN AVI FILES ON MAC MAC OS#

If a AVI file is not opened in a Mac OS application and you instead get a "There is no application set to open the file" error message you can click on "Search App Store" in the error dialog and Mac OS will show you applications compatible with AVI file.

Find a AVI file in question in Mac OS Finder and double click on it to launch the corresponding application.

#HOW TO OPEN AVI FILES ON MAC INSTALL#

Install the application you found and check if it can open AVI file.If you don't know the application which function as AVI file opener then try to search for "AVI wiki", "application to open AVI file" or "open AVI file" queries in the search engine you like.If you know the application which can open AVI file then run it and see if there is a File->Open main menu option in the application.If a AVI file is not opened in an application and you instead get a "Windows can't open a file" error message you should try looking for an application which can open the file in question.Find a AVI file in question in Windows OS File Explorer and double click on it to launch the corresponding application."C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exe" /prefetch:8 /Play "%L"įrequently used application names to open AVI files:.C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Live\Photo Gallery\WLXPhotoGallery.exe /LaunchPhotoViewer /v "%1".C:\Program Files (x86)\QuickTime\QuickTimePlayer.exe "%1".%ProgramFiles%\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exe /prefetch:8 /Open "%L".Normally these files are only used for editing the video and data is then compressed using MPEG-2 or MPEG-4 algorithms to be written on CDs or DVDs.Īlmost any modern Windows video player can open AVI files and play information in them. These files may use inter-frame but not inter-frame compression schemes which produces huge files (usually gigabytes or tens of gigabytes in size) with very good image quality.

#HOW TO OPEN AVI FILES ON MAC CODE#

Each codec is identified by a four-letter code (FOURCC)ĭV AVI files are usually produced by miniDV tape camcorders. AVI files can use many different video compression algorithms including: Intel Real Time (Indeo), Cinepak, Motion JPEG, Editable MPEG, VDOWave, ClearVideo, RealVideo, QPEG, MPEG-4 etc. This is achieved by interleaving small blocks (called chunks) of audio and video data in the file. This format allows to store both audio and video data in the same file for simultaneous playback while using different compression codecs for each stream. These files contain multimedia streams stored in AVI container format that was originally developed by Microsoft Corporation in the 1992 based on "Resource Interchange File Format" (RIFF). AVI file extension is used by Audio Video Interleave files.