The AVI container has no native support for modern MPEG-4 features like B-Frames. There is highly overhead when used with some other popular MPEG-4 codecs (Xvid and DivX, for example), increasing file size much more than necessary. So if you want to enjoy AVI on you home or portable DVD payers, you should purchase Solid AVI to DVD Converter and Burner to help you do the conversion job. But AVI isn't supported by most standalone DVD players. Since AVI was developed for Windows 3.1 in 1992 it lacks some new features found in newer containers like MPEG or MKV. These file formats are supported by Microsoft Windows, and are unofficially called "AVI 2.0". Many AVI files also use the file format extensions which developed by the Matrox OpenDML group in February 1996.
Just as the DVD video format, AVI files support multiple audio and video streaming.
AVI video files can contain both audio and video data in one single file container which allows synchronous audio and -video playback.