MOV information and comparisons
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| Container for: | Audio, video, text |
| Introduction (from Wikipedia): | The QuickTime (.mov) file format functions as a multimedia container file that contains one or more tracks, each of which stores a particular type of data: audio, video, effects, or text (e.g. for subtitles). |
| Initial release: | December 2, 1991 |
| Origin: | Developed by Apple for Mac OS and QuickTime |
| File size and quality: | Small size and better quality |
| Codec support: | MOV supports MP4 codecs like H.264 |
| Media player support: | MOV files cannot be played on all media player applications. |
| Popularity: | Not as popular as AVI |
| Internet media type: | video/quicktime |
| Type code: | MooV |
| Uniform Type Identifier: | com.apple.quicktime-movie |
| Developed by: | Apple Inc. |
| Support for B-frames: | Yes |
| Variable bit rate audio: | Yes |
| Variable frame rate: | Yes |
| Chapters: | Yes |
| Subtitles: | Yes |
| Video formats supported: | Limited to what is available to the QuickTime codec manager |
| Audio formats supported: | Limited to what is available to Sound Manager or CoreAudio |
| Metadata/tags supported: | Yes |
| Supports menus (like DVD): | No |