AVI combines audio and video into a single file in a standard container to allow simultaneous playback. Developed by Microsoft in 1992, it has become so widespread that many people consider it the de-facto standard for storing video and audio information on PC. Most media players do not natively support MKV files, you would have to use a special media playing software to access its content normally such as VLC.ĪVI stands for Audio Video Interleave.
This is similar to other container formats such as AVI or MP4 although generally when packaging an MKV file people rarely bundle all the tracks within the file. MKV to AVI - Convert file now View other video file formatsįile saved into the MKV format more often than not save each track (subtitle, picture, audio and video) into a different dataline. It is a RAW format that you can easily flip and turn all of the separate data tracks.
It is a convenient video file where you can fit in the highest amount of data possible. The MKV file holds an unlimited number of video, audio, picture and subtitle tracks within the file.
