About AVI to MP3
Old AVI camcorder clips often carry audio worth keeping — extract it to MP3 for sharing or archiving.
The audio track is decoded and encoded to MP3; the video stream is ignored, so this is quicker than a full video conversion.
The FFmpeg engine (about 31 MB) downloads the first time you convert and is then cached by your browser. Files up to about 100 MB are supported because everything runs in browser memory.
AVI vs MP3
| AVI | MP3 | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | Older Microsoft container | Lossy audio |
| Typical codecs | Often MPEG-4 Part 2 (Xvid/DivX) or MJPEG video, MP3 audio | MPEG-1 Layer III |
| Common use | Old cameras and archives | Universal music and podcast format |
How to do it
- 1
Drop a AVI file into the converter above (already set to MP3).
- 2
Pick a bitrate if you want something other than 192 kbps.
- 3
Tap Convert, keep the tab open until it finishes, then download the MP3.