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video/quicktime

QuickTime MOV files are still common in editing suites and camera exports, especially when preserving richer production metadata.

video
Usually already encoded

Content-Type header

Content-Type: video/quicktime
Common extensions
.mov

How teams usually encounter it

This page maps the media type to the file extensions and delivery behaviors developers usually care about: browser parsing, upload validation, cache correctness, and asset handling.

Compression signal

video/quicktime is usually already compressed or stored in a binary-heavy format, so extra transfer compression tends to help less.

Server config snippets

Use these when a server is missing the right extension-to-MIME mapping or you want the expected header to survive a proxy, CDN, or custom asset bucket setup.

Nginx
types {
  video/quicktime mov;
}
Apache
AddType video/quicktime .mov

Signature note

This MIME type does not include a magic-byte sample here because the signature is either format-dependent or not reliable enough to present as a debugging shortcut.

Operational shortcut

If a browser downloads this asset instead of rendering it correctly, check the response header first, then verify the extension mapping on your origin and edge cache. .mov is the fastest sanity check for teammates reviewing the file outside the app.

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