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  1. 9th Dec 2008 11:57 #1
    dilanalex
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    I heard that AVI file format is not compressed format. So how lot of films comes in .avi file format and confined to 700MB, 699MB etc, with superb quality? Is this format differ from normal .avi file format? or what is happend?

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    JohnnyMalaria
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    The AVI file format is just a wrapper for whatever it contains which can be compressed. DV and MJPEG are but two examples of this.
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    Not Latest News. Moving this thread.

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    Think of the avi container as a drinking glass, and the video codecs as the various types of beverages that can be poured into the glass. (I got that analogy from someone on this site, but forgot who.) There is DV (a pretty standard video editing codec), divx / xvid (highly compressed playback codec), uncompressed RGB/YCbCr (good for multi-generational filtering and editing), etc. They are very, very different, yet each has an .avi extension. This has led to much confusion over editing, playback, and disc space issues.
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  5. 11th Dec 2008 00:46 #5
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    hey THANK YOU VERY MUCH. this solved my problem. Thanks 'JohnnyMalaria' and 'filmboss80'. very clear solution...

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    Thanks all of u very much. Very Clear explanations and it solved my problem.
    thanks again....

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