---
title: Movie media
framework: quicktime-file-format
role: collectionGroup
role_heading: API Collection
path: quicktime-file-format/movie_media
---

# Movie media

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

## Overview

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](quicktime-file-format/movie_media_sample.md)

## See Also

### Video and sound

- [Video media](quicktime-file-format/video_media.md)
- [Sound media](quicktime-file-format/sound_media.md)
- [Music media](quicktime-file-format/music_media.md)
- [MPEG-1 media](quicktime-file-format/mpeg-1_media.md)
- [Defining media data layouts](quicktime-file-format/appendix_b_defining_media_data_layouts.md)