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Overview of QTFF

QuickTime movies are stored on disk, using two basic structures for storing information: atoms (also known as simple atoms or classic atoms), and QT atoms. To understand how QuickTime movies are stored, you need to understand the basic atom structures described in this chapter. Most atoms you encounter in the QuickTime File Format are simple or classic atoms. Both simple atoms and QT atoms, however, allow you to construct arbitrarily complex hierarchical data structures. Both also allow your application to ignore data they don’t understand.

Contents:

Metadata
Atoms
QT Atoms and Atom Containers
QuickTime Movie Files

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