Apple QuickTime container, the ancestor of the modern MP4 format.
| 0x00000004 | 66747970 | ftyp | ISO-BMFF 'ftyp' box |
| 0x00000008 | 71742020 | qt | brand 'qt ' |
MOV is Apple's QuickTime container and the direct ancestor of MP4 — the two share the ISO-BMFF box structure and are often interchangeable. QuickTime files carry the 'qt ' brand in their 'ftyp' box.
Have a file that might be QuickTime Movie? Identify it with the File Type Identifier — it reads the magic number locally, nothing is uploaded. Or browse all formats.