.mov

A .mov file is aQuicktime movie file. Quicktime is a video and audio container format developed byApple Computer Inc. It doesn't define the actual compression technology the video has to use, but just defines the video structure instead.

Quicktime Alternative is an excellent player for Quicktime files. Also there are several software titles available to download at AfterDawn that allow Quicktime files to be encoded to other formats such asMPEG (for use withVCD,SVCD orDVD for example).

Related software tools

	QuickTime Alternative (QT7 based)(Freeware) QuickTime Alternative will allow you to play QuickTime files (.mov, .qt and other extensions) without having to install the official QuickTime Player
	Quicktime Reader plug-in for TMPGEnc(Freeware) A plug-in for TMPGEnc which allows you to read read in Quicktime (MOV) files with TMPGEnc and convert them to MPEG-1/MPEG-2 format.
	VSO ConvertXtoDVD(Shareware) Easy-to-use tool that allows converting any video file format(DivX, AVI, WMV, ..) to a DVD-compliant video.
	WinAVI Video Converter(Shareware) WinAVI Video Converter is software for video conversion.