QuickTime for the Web: For Windows and Macintosh, Second Edition
A comprehensive explanation of QuickTime for every multimedia author.
TABLE OF CONTENTS QuickTime for the Web: For Windows and Macintosh, Second Edition
Appendix E: QuickTime Media Types
This appendix gives you a quick survey of how QuickTime imports and exports the media types with which it is compatible.
Digital Video
Besides its own movie format, QuickTime handles DV, MPEG, OpenDML, SDP, and AVI files, as listed below. Movies in all of these media types open in place.
| Media type | Macintosh file types | Filename extensions | MIME types |
|---|---|---|---|
| QuickTime movie | MooV | .mov, .qt | video/quicktime |
| QuickTime media link | MooV | .qtl | application/x-quicktimeplayer |
| AVI (Video for Windows) | VfW | .avi | video/x-msvideo |
| DV (Digital Video) | dvc! | .dv, .dif | video/x-dv |
| OpenDML | VfW | .avi | video/x-msvideo |
| MPEG (Motion Picture Experts Group) | MPEG | .mpeg, .m15 | video/mpeg |
| MPGa | .m1s, .m1a | audio/mpeg | |
| MPGv | .m1v, .m64 | video/xmpeg | |
| MPGx | .m75, .mp2 | audio/xmpeg | |
| .mpa, .mpg | |||
| .mpm, .mpv | |||
| SDP (Session Description Protocol) | TEXT | .sdp | application/sdp |
QuickTime's Movie Type
QuickTime movie files can contain any media type that QuickTime can play audio, video, text, URLs of live streams, Flash, VR, and so on. The specification for the QuickTime movie file format can be found at developer.apple.com/techpubs/quicktime/qtdevdocs/RM/frameset.htm.
DV
For DV, the QuickTime movie import component supports NTSC and PAL video formats and 12-bit and 16-bit audio at 32, 44.1, and 48 kHz data rates, both locked and unlocked. The format is defined by Specifications of Consumer-Use Digital VCRs, published by the HD Digital VCR Conference.
MPEG Video
The QuickTime MPEG extension supports MPEG-1 video format and layers 1, 2, and 3 sound. When opening an MPEG file from a video CD, QuickTime creates a text track...
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