.. index:: QuickTime Movie .. index:: .mov QuickTime Movie =============================================================================== Extensions: .mov Owner: `Apple Computer `_ **Support** BSD-licensed: |yes| Export: |yes| Officially Supported Versions: Readers: - NativeQTReader (:bsd-reader:`Source Code `, :doc:`Supported Metadata Fields `) - LegacyQTReader (:bsd-reader:`Source Code `, :doc:`Supported Metadata Fields `) Writer: QTWriter (:bsd-writer:`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: |Good| Metadata: |Fair| Openness: |Fair| Presence: |Outstanding| Utility: |Poor| **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 ====== ================================== =================== ============ .. seealso:: `QuickTime software overview `_