Movie header atom ('mvhd')

Overview

You use the movie header atom to specify the characteristics of an entire QuickTime movie. The data contained in this atom defines characteristics of the entire QuickTime movie, such as time scale and duration. It has an atom type value of 'mvhd'.

The following table shows the layout of the movie header atom. The movie header atom is a leaf atom.

Topics

Data fields

• Size
• Type
• Version
• Flags
• Creation time
• Modification time
• Time scale
• Duration
• Preferred rate
• Preferred volume
• Reserved
• Matrix structure
• Preview time
• Preview duration
• Poster time
• Selection time
• Selection duration
• Current time
• Next track ID

See Also

Describing movies

• Movie atom ('moov')
• Color table atom ('ctab')
• User data atoms
• Interleaving movie data