Click to expand.AVI is not a video 'format' like you're thinking, like if a video player can play one AVI it can play them all. That's not the case. Is a container for video and audio codecs. Poetic Hustlaz Trials more. Videos on the web that use AVI to store video most often contain Microsoft Video or DivX/XviD files, but there are other formats that can be contained in it of course. One common yet rarely-used video format is, which is designed around the JPEG compression scheme of still images and is basically a format built around flipbooking stills together.
Playing Backed-up movies on PS3 via media server. (and have been testing different software/codecs converting videos for my PSP as well. Lego Mindstorm Software Nxt 2.1 there. From MPEG-2 to XviD. PSP isos - how to run them on your PS3 without any complex hack. PSP isos are backups of your psp games that you can run on PC, Android, PS3, etc. I have just found what I have been looking for an easy way to fix xvids to play on ps3, it is a simple and fairly quick way to convert from xvid to divx without too.
The format is popular for video capture because videocaps linearly record a frame at a time, but for video storage and distribution, it sucks because you're getting none of the benefit of a good video codec in reducing the file size by simplifying similar images and keyframing good frames to hold it all together. Imagine every frame of a movie being a singular.jpg on your memory card (100k per image times 30 frames per second times 60 seconds times a minute.
Do the math, and that's for bad image quality.) The PSP does indeed read M-JPEG AVIs -- that is in fact how the PSP USB Camera records video clips. (I have a four-second clip of my cat at 480x272, it's 3MB in size; when I compress video for my train ride, I can fit a half-hour show into less than 100MB at perfectly watchable quality.) This M-JPEG is the same format that Wii supports, and since it's the only format Wii supports, most consider Wii to not have video playback capabilities. In other words, don't consider this a viable option for PSP video play. MP4 is much, much better -- it does suck that Sony's codec/framesize support is unreasonably sketchy and so most videos downloaded from the internet will not play on the device, but that's a different story. In any case, there are plenty of pretty good free video converter options out there to make use of. Hope that helps.