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# Text media

Store text data in QuickTime movies.

## Overview

Text media is used to store text data in QuickTime movies. It has a media type of `'text'`.

## Topics

### Storing text data

[`Text sample description`](/documentation/quicktime-file-format/Text_sample_description)

An atom that defines how to interpret text media data.

[`Text media information atom ('text')`](/documentation/quicktime-file-format/Text_media_information_atom)

An atom that contains information about text media.

[Text sample data](/documentation/QuickTime-File-Format/Text_sample_data)

An atom that contains text data.

[Hypertext and wired text](/documentation/QuickTime-File-Format/Hypertext_and_wired_text)

Store hypertext in a text track sample atom.


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