Tiny MOV Loader and Writer library

Header-only simple&limited MOV (Apple QuickTime Movie) loader in C++.

Features

• Opening existing MOV files
• Editing opened MOV info before writing
• Writing new MOV files (remuxing)
  • Runtime handler support for chunk data
  • Runtime handler support for video sample description
• Some MOV info is supported
  • Tracks info
    • Track media info
      • Type (Audio/Video/Timecode/...)
      • Chunk offsets in MOV file
      • Sample sizes in MOV file
      • Sample-to-Chunk info
      • Time-to-Sample info
      • Sample Description Extensions
        • zraw
  • Metadata info
• Atoms supported for reading/writing (not checked - skipped for now):
  • ftyp
  • jpeg
  • RECO
  • free
  • moov
    • mvhd
    • trak
      • tkhd
      • edts
      • tref
      • mdia
        • mdhd
        • hdlr
        • minf
          • vmhd (for video)
          • smhd (for audio)
          • gmhd (for timecode)
            • gmin
            • tcmd
              • tcmi
          • hdlr
          • dinf
            • dref
          • stbl
            • stsd
            • stts
            • stss
            • sdtp
            • stsc
            • stsz
            • stco
    • meta
      • hdlr
      • keys
      • mdta
      • ilst
    • udta
  • wide
  • mdat

Usage

#include "TinyMovFileReader.hpp"

int main()
{
    // Create temporary reader
    TinyMovFileReader reader;

    // Here file is opened, parsed to abstractions and closed
    auto mov = reader.OpenMovFile("./example_0_93.ZRAW");

    // Show tracks count
    std::cout << "Tracks: " << mov.Tracks().size() << std::endl;

    // Process tracks
    for (int i = 0; i < mov.Tracks().size(); ++i)
    {
        auto& track = mov.Tracks()[i];

        // ... (here you do any stuff with tracks)
    }

    return 0;
}

Resource

• QuickTime File Format Specification - https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/QuickTime/QTFF/QTFFChap2/qtff2.html
• QuickTime File Format Specification - https://wikileaks.org/sony/docs/05/docs/Apple/qtff.pdf

TODO

• ".ZRAW" encrypted MOV files support
• Improve MOV reader
  • Support more atoms
• Support Big MOV (4GB+)
• MOV writer
• Allow MOV file repack (MOV -> TinyMovReader -> TinyMovWriter -> MOV)

License

TinyMovFileReader is licensed under MIT license.