Add .mov as output format

[Uli Zappe]

On OS X, .mov works just as well as .m4v for subtitled movies in both QuickTime Players, third-party apps using QTKit or AVKit and iTunes (if the movie is small enough).

OTOH, .mov has the big advantage that you can easily edit the movie properties in QuickTime Player 7 and then simply save the .mov file again. With .m4v, the whole movie has to be copied into a new .mov file even after the smallest change in the property settings.

[Uli Zappe]

Just to prevent misunderstandings: Of course I’m aware that Subler can do all that QuickTime Player 7 can do. However, not all users I’d want to distribute my subtitled movies to might have installed Subler, while everyone has installed QuickTime Player 7. .mov is simply the standard movie format on OS X (iDevices aside).

[Damiano Galassi]

Subler use the mp4v2 library to edit the mp4 files. Mov is almost the same as mp4, but there are some subtle differences mp4v2 can't handle. The QuickTime framework and all its friends are deprecated (including QuickTime Player 7), and AVFoundation can't edit a mov file directly (it can only write a new one). So there is no easy way to edit a mov, and it wouldn't still be easy to integrate it in Subler.

I guess you can simply open the mp4 in QuickTime Player and save it as a mov.

[Uli Zappe]

AVFoundation can't edit a mov file directly (it can only write a new one).

But don’t you have to write a new file anyway, at least if the input is .mkv?

I guess you can simply open the mp4 in QuickTime Player and save it as a mov.

Yep, of course, but that means shuffling of gigabytes of data for a second time (after going from .mkv to .m4v) for no good reason.