MPEG4..avi?

[Devlin Carnet]

Hi,
I'm a bit puzzled, I recently bought a small digital camcorder, In the
Spiel that came with it, it says that it records in mpeg-4 format,
However,when I plug it in to the pc to download them they appear as .AVI files.
I would have expected to see .MP4 file extension Are they/can they be the same?
Cheers guys.

[DBTL]

AVI can be thought of as an generic holder for any of the numerous video/audio compression schemes. An MPEG4 stream can appear on its own or as an embedded stream in an AVI file.

http://www.deskshare.com/Resources/articles/dmc_Compression_AVI.aspx

[Mac the Knife]

Thanks DBTL - that clears up something that I was confused about!

:ok:

[Devlin Carnet]

Yep, Thanks mate :ok: