.QT File Extension

Are you having difficulty opening a file that ends with .QT? Such files can be executed only by certain programs. If you cannot open the .QT file, it can be due to the following reasons: either you do not have an appropriate program to open it, or your file association is corrupted. For more information about this extension, please read the article below.

What is a .QT file?

.QT file belongs to the category of Video Files used in operating systems such as Windows 11, 10, Windows 7, Windows 8 / 8.1, Windows Vista, Windows XP.

Developer: Apple

File Type: Apple QuickTime Movie

Category: Video Files

Format: Binary

.QT file is associated with Apple QuickTime Movie developed by Apple, has a Binary Format and belongs to Video Files category.

A QT file is considered a movie file saved in QTFF format (Apple's media container). It contains one or more audio, video, and subtitles tracks, and the MPEG-4 codec is often used for the compression procedure. QT files most commonly store movies with video clips in their structure.

Additional data

From QTFF eventually emerged the MPEG-4 standard. Apple created QTFF to support the types of media to enable multimedia transfer between applications, operating systems, and other devices.

Video files saved in QTFF most often have .qt or .mov extensions, but .MOV files appear more often than .QT.

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