"Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> > AVI in itself isn't a codec.
>
>   Neither is MPEG.
>
>   AVI is a container file for virtually any video and audio format. It is
> not a video/audio format in itself and does not define in any way the
format
> of the data it contains.

If more exactly, AVI is a subset of RIFF (which is THE container, BTW)
with... err, very high probability of presence of certain kind of chunks
('vids', for one, is present in 99.(9)% of them; you might run across some
AVI files w/o any video streams at all, or course...).

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