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[โ€“] Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 79 points 8 months ago (25 children)
[โ€“] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 26 points 8 months ago

Audio-video interleave, an early video container that sucked because you couldn't play it unless it was complete, making it unfit for streaming. The only use I can think of nowadays is to generate an NTSC MPEG-2 file that even early DVD+USB players will play, for testing composite video equipment.

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