Today we're talking about file formats again and the differentiation between containers and their contents. If you have ever felt that AVI (or MPEG, or MXF) files don't offer the same picture quality ...

If you want to import a QuickTime movie file into iMovie on your Mac, you may soon realize that the video editing application does not support the standard MOV QuickTime file format. You can, however, ...

The developers of Perian, the free and extremely popular video format extender for QuickTime, have announced that they are ceasing work on the project. In a statement on the project’s Web site, the ...

I need to get extremely low bitrate (8kbit) MP3 into the QuickTime file format.<BR><BR>Quicktime player, of course, does not support this, although MP3 is a perfectly valid audio type and QT player ...

ISOBMFF is a cross-platform C++ library for reading/parsing files in the ISO Base Media File Format (ISO/IEC 14496-12). The ISO Base Media File Format is a container format, used by many file types, ...

As a newish Mac user, you may wonder what allows your computer to display pictures and play music and movies. Wonder no longer. This bit of media magic is performed by something called QuickTime.