Nintendo's Amiibo, its entry into the toys-to-life gaming accessory business that also includes Activision's Skylanders and Disney's Infinity, seems to be off to a fairly good start. But it could have been much better.
AVI, video player and codec. Generally speaking, playing an AVI requires two things: a video player software and a codec. Each version of Windows ships with a video player software (called Windows Media Player), so that is not a problem. The problem is called the codec. One of the first terms a digital video freshman gets to know is codec.
Audio Video Interleave - DV AVI. 1  DV AVI is a type of AVI file where the video has been compressed to conform with DV standards. 2  Type 1: The multiplexed Audio-Video is kept in its original multiplexing and saved together into the Video section of the AVI file. 3  Type 2: Like type 1, but audio is also saved as an additional audio stream into the file.