Convert AVI to 3GP

Converting one file format to another may be necessary for various reasons. So, for example, you may want to convert AVI to 3GP if your computer, phone or other device does not support AVI format. Also, conversion is often required to reduce the file size, since the original format takes up too much space in the device's memory. Perhaps you just need to extract the audio track from the video file, in which case converting the video to audio format is a good option. In any case, with the help of our converter, you can easily complete the required task. Below you can find out some details about the original and new file formats.

AVI is a popular audio and video file format that was developed by Microsoft in 1992. It was the very first format for working with video-audio in the old version of Windows 3.1. Now the developers are updating it, they have improved the quality of compression and viewing of media files in this format. AVI is an abbreviation. Audio Video Interleave is fully written. Files with this extension can be played by various video players due to their simple architecture. AVI remains the most popular video format for viewing on a computer. It features high definition and retains the best quality when transcoding video files. In most cases, you do not need to install additional codecs to view clips in this format, since they are built into each player by default. This media container can contain multithreaded video and audio tracks and allow their synchronous playback. Videos with sound in this format are played by the standard built-in media player in all operating systems of the Windows family. Due to the sufficient popularity of the format, it can be opened not only in the Windows operating system, but also in Linux and Mac OS. In addition, files of this format can be opened in smartphones with Android OS and iPhones.

The 3GP file contains multimedia data in an audio and video container format developed by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) consortium for mobile telephony. It is used to transfer audio and video over the Internet, as well as save videos captured on a mobile device. The finished video clips in 3GP have a small size compared to similar videos in other formats, however, this is justified by a rather low quality, for example, often many frames are presented in the form of colored squares. This format is used to play videos, most often on mobile phones. Its peculiarity lies in the size of the files being played - it is much smaller than, for example, avi. The disadvantage of 3GP is quality, but it is ideal for playing on mobile phones. A 3gp file is a small footage created for playback on portable devices (phones, smartphones, tablets, etc.).