- Extension
- .mov
- .xbm
- Format
- Binary
- Text
- Category
- Video
- Raster Image
- Developer
- Apple
- The X Consortium
- Description
- A MOV file is a common multimedia container file format developed by Apple and compatible with both Macintosh and Windows platforms. It may contain multiple tracks that store different types of media data and is often used for saving movies and other video files. MOV files commonly use the MPEG-4 codec for compression.
- Bitmap image used by the X Window System (X11), a graphical user interface (GUI) used to manage networked client-server computers; stores a monochrome image that is written as plain text in the C programming language.
- MIME Type
- video/quicktime
- image/x-xbitmap
