No wonder both are regarded as the most commonly used container formats that almost anyone who has preferred high quality video has made contact with these two container file formats at some point.

Quality: Though encoded and decoded by different codecs, alongside a form of lossy compression that loses some of the video data when the file is compressed, both MP4 and AVI can maintain the best possible quality compared with other video files. AVI can't hold subtitles it self, but it can contain SubRip, SubStation Alpha and XSUB via third-party modeification and DivX.Ĭompare MP4 with AVI, and we find out their differences in multiple aspects, but meanwhile we also see something in common. MP4 natively supports two subtitle types, namley MPEG-4 Timed Text and VobSub. Subtitles: Subtitles also differ in MP4 vs AVI battle. With the support for both codecs, MP4 can hold 4K Ultra HD videos while AVI is only for HD and Full HD files. Usually playable on Windows-based media players like Windows Media PlayerĬompatible with Microsoft devices, game console including Xbox, PS3, PSP, and part of Android devices, but unworkable with Apple devicesĭivX, Xvid, Cinepak, Indeo, DV and Motion JPEGĬodecs: One big difference between MP4 and AVI is that AVI won't support HEVC/H.265 or VP9 formats. MP4 can be used for compression of AV data for web, applied for streaming media, for CD distribution, for voice broadcast television applications, as well as be streamed over the internet.Īll the portable devices like Apple, Android, Sony, Microsoft devicesĪlmost anything through ACM Vorbis is problematic MPEG-2/4 (HE)-AAC, MPEG-1/2 Layers I, II, III (MP3), AC-3, Apple Lossless, ALS, SLS, Vorbis, others

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