QuickTime Movie

Extensions: .mov

Owner: Apple Computer

Support

BSD-licensed:

Export:

Officially Supported Versions:

Readers:

• NativeQTReader (Source Code, Supported Metadata Fields)

• LegacyQTReader (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 has two modes of operation for QuickTime:

• The legacy QTJava mode requires QuickTime for Java which will only run with a 32-bit JVM and is no longer available from Apple.

• Native mode works on systems with no QuickTime (e.g. Linux).

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

Codec	Description	Native	LegacyQTJava
raw	Full Frames (Uncompressed)	read & write	read & write
iraw	Intel YUV Uncompressed	read only	read & write
rle	Animation (run length encoded RGB)	read only	read & write
jpeg	Still Image JPEG DIB	read only	read only
rpza	Apple Video 16 bit “road pizza”	read only (partial)	read only
mjpb	Motion JPEG codec	read only	read only
cvid	Cinepak		read & write
svq1	Sorenson Video		read & write
svq3	Sorenson Video 3		read & write
mp4v	MPEG-4		read & write
h263	H.263		read & write

See also

QuickTime software overview