QuickTime Movie

Extensions: .mov

Owner: Apple Computer

Support

BSD-licensed:

Export:

Officially Supported Versions:

Reader: QTReader (Source Code, Supported Metadata Fields)

Writer: QTWriter (Source Code)

Freely Available Software:

• QuickTime Player

We currently have:

• a QuickTime specification document

• several QuickTime datasets

• the ability to produce more datasets

We would like to have:

• more QuickTime datasets, including:

  • files compressed with a common, unsupported codec

  • files with audio tracks and/or multiple video tracks

Ratings

Pixels:

Metadata:

Openness:

Presence:

Utility:

Additional Information

Bio-Formats can save image stacks as QuickTime movies. The following table shows supported codecs:

Codec	Description	Native
raw	Full Frames (Uncompressed)	read & write
iraw	Intel YUV Uncompressed	read only
rle	Animation (run length encoded RGB)	read only
jpeg	Still Image JPEG DIB	read only
rpza	Apple Video 16 bit “road pizza”	read only (partial)
mjpb	Motion JPEG codec	read only

See also

QuickTime software overview