What is a .MOV file?
MOV is Apple’s QuickTime video container, common from iPhones and Macs.
- Did you know
- Apple introduced the QuickTime MOV format in 1991.
- Apple released QuickTime 1.0 on 2 December 1991, codenamed “Warhol”, bringing colour video playback to ordinary personal computers.
- The QuickTime format is organised into “tracks” for video, audio, text or images, an idea echoed by later containers.
- QuickTime’s box, or “atom”, structure was so influential that the ISO base media file format and MP4 were built directly on it.
- On the web a .MOV file is served with the MIME type
video/quicktime.
- What Analyser shows you
- Read the container, codec, resolution, and frame rate of MP4, MOV, MKV, AVI, and WebM video, step through frames, and extract the audio track. Raw H.264/H.265 elementary streams (.h264/.265) are remuxed to MP4 in-browser so they play too, as are AVCHD camcorder files (.mts/.m2ts) - the video is copied and the audio transcoded to AAC. Sony cameras (Alpha, FX, RX) that embed a gyro / accelerometer "rtmd" timed-metadata track have that inertial data decoded and plotted - the same gyroscope and accelerometer samples Gyroflow and Catalyst Browse use to stabilise footage - alongside the ISO, white balance and capture time.
- Open a .MOV file
- Drag a .MOV file onto the Analyser home page (or tap to pick one). It opens entirely in your browser - nothing is uploaded, there is no account, and it works offline once installed.