AVI video codec

[moera]

Dear friends
I need some help about AVI video format. I want to do a research about video compression in AVI format. The structure of this format is a big question in my mind.
Is there any document that explains this CODEC?
I need some information about The structure of this format ?
Which software do this work (convert the .yuv to .avi)?
thanks

[hech54]

AVI is a container....not a codec.

[Cornucopia]

Look at microsoft's documents on the RIFF container format (of which AVI and WAV are both similar subsets). It exists in multiple locations on the net (some referring to the v1.0 spec, and some to the compatible v2.0/OpenDML spec).

AVI is NOT a codec. It is a multimedia container, like MOV, MKV, MP4, and ASF/WMV.

The codec(s) are APPS (DLLs) which do the compression & decompression. The video streams & audio streams contained in AVI, etc. are compressed using the encoder part of a codec and decompressed with the decoder part. The "codec" is not actually contained at all anywhere within the stream(s), but are part of the playing/editing application or underlying multimedia engine or of the operating system.
The CODED (compressed) streams residing in the container may sometimes be referred to as a codec, but they aren't really.

*.YUV usually refers to a raw, containerless video stream (which is usually uncompressed). The "codec" used to play this back is differentiated by how it organizes the uncompressed data (4:4:4 vs. 4:2:2 vs. 4:2:0, etc., and Planar vs. Packed and in which order).

Scott

[jagabo]

Wikipedia is a good place to start:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_Video_Interleave

The AVI container is fully documented at Microsoft:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd318187(v=vs.85).aspx

And a PDF version of the spec:
http://www.alexander-noe.com/video/documentation/avi.pdf

ODML extensions (used primarily for file sizes over 4 GB):
http://www.staroceans.org.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/documents/odmlff2-avidef.pdf

[moera]

Wikipedia is a good place to start:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_Video_Interleave

The AVI container is fully documented at Microsoft:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd318187(v=vs.85).aspx

And a PDF version of the spec:
http://www.alexander-noe.com/video/documentation/avi.pdf

ODML extensions (used primarily for file sizes over 4 GB):
http://www.staroceans.org.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/documents/odmlff2-avidef.pdf

thanks for your time...