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# Movie media

Movie media is used to encapsulate embedded movies within QuickTime movies.

## Overview

This feature is available in QuickTime 4.1.

### Movie sample description

Movie media doesn’t have a unique sample description. It uses the minimum sample description, which is `SampleDescriptionRecord`.

## Topics

### Storing embedded movies

[`Movie media sample`](/documentation/quicktime-file-format/Movie_media_sample)

Each sample in the movie media is a QuickTime atom container.


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