QuickTime File Format

QuickTime File Format (QTFF) is a computer file format used natively by the QuickTime framework.

Design

The format specifies a multimedia container file that contains one or more tracks, each of which stores a particular type of data: audio, video, or text (e.g. for subtitles). Each track either contains a digitally-encoded media stream (using a specific format) or a data reference to the media stream located in another file. Tracks are maintained in a hierarchical data structure consisting of objects called atoms. An atom can be a parent to other atoms or it can contain media or edit data, but it cannot do both.

The ability to contain abstract data references for the media data, and the separation of the media data from the media offsets and the track edit lists means that QuickTime is particularly suited for editing, as it is capable of importing and editing in place (without data copying). Other later-developed media container formats such as Microsoft's Advanced Systems Format or the Matroska and Ogg containers lack this abstraction, and require all media data to be rewritten after editing.

MOV

MOV may refer to:

  • MOV (x86 instruction), a mnemonic for the copying of data from one location to another in the x86 assembly language
  • .mov, filename extension for the QuickTime multimedia file format
  • Metal oxide varistor, an electronic component with a significant non-ohmic current-voltage characteristic
  • Marconi-Osram Valve, a former British manufacturer of vacuum tubes
  • The Merchant of Venice, a play by William Shakespeare
  • MOV (TV channel), a Portuguese television channel operated by ZON Multimédia
  • Member of the Order of the Volta, one of the highest national awards of Ghana
  • MOV (album), a 1999 album by R&B group Men of Vizion
  • Motor-operated valve, a style of valve actuator for controlling flow in pipes
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