How to Convert AVI with AVI Converter

If there is no difference between formats, you'll never have to convert AVI for playing in Windows Media Player (or other player that can't recognize AVI files), importing to iPad, iPhone, iPod, HTC, BlackBerry, Nokia or other devices or…Since AVI is one of the most popular format online and offline, a majority of people has many questions about enjoying AVI videos.

This article then may be useful for saving you out of your confusions about AVI.

What's AVI?

Typically speaking, AVI is a multimedia container or wrapper format as well as an acronym for Audio Video Interleave. It's created by Microsoft, but which doesn't means all AVI files are playable on Windows Media Player, because AVI files can be encoded with different codecs such as DivX, XviD, MPEG4, AVC, MSMPEG4V2,WMV2,FLV1,MPEG2 and MJPEG, while Windows apps only support several of them. For example, if your AVI files are encoded with DivX, you may only be able to listen to the audio but non video. AVI is a very fashion format so that it's widely used for saving movies, music (sometimes you may find AVI files in games and DVDs). All these results AVI having the vast support of hard devices, for example, some models of Blackberry, PSP, Game Hardware, Sandisk Sansa, Archos and Creative Zen.

Why convert AVI?

Though AVI is widely used online and offline, you may download videos as AVI files from some video-sharing sites, record videos as AVI files with Canon camcorders or other cams, be shared some videos in AVI from friends…AVI is not unobstructed. Every device and media player application has their own format lists which shows which format they support and which don't. For instance, AVI files are unviewable on iPhone while videos in MOV, M4V, MP4 are. In these cases, you have to convert AVI for some change.

How to convert AVI?

That might be an interesting question. It seems difficult to do so, say, convert AVI. But in fact, if you have an AVI converter, all is just a piece of cake. The following paragraphs show you a sample of converting AVI with a professional program named Aimersoft Video Converter Std, which enables you to convert video to AVI and also convert AVI to video with ease. It supplies nearly all popular video and audio formats including MP4, MOV, WMV, MOV, 3GP, FLV, MP3, AAC and so on.

Then add AVI videos to the AVI converter> select your output format>click Start button. Only three steps, you then can finish the AVI conversion without losing video quality.

You also are allowed to import video in other formats to the program then convert the video to AVI file for making it more accessible. In addition, if you wanna play your AVI files on iOS devices, say, iPad, iPhone, iPod, or other devices like HTC smartphone, BlackBerry and so on, you can directly choose the optimized presets for them. In this way, you can get quick access to your device.