MOVing Puzzles

Mostly because of the weather I have not been in mood to work on anything serious for weeks, but here is something rather interesting. Apparently there are some CD-ROMs represented on discmaster titled “Moving Puzzle: …” that have some .mv files (inside media.pak archive) that supposedly give motion to those puzzles. And of course somebody had to look at the format. Obviously the format was inspired by QuickTime as it has the header with all those chunks defining per-track data including e.g. sample-to-chunk mapping. There are two main differences though: the format is flat as first you have header size and header chunks following each other without any nesting (so when you encounter the second track header chunk the following chunks will belong to this new track); and the data is little-endian there, both numbers and tags (e.g. “ssiz” which is sample sizes chunk is written as “ziss” instead, same for e.g. codec IDs). Luckily I could ignore most of it as the data seems to be stored…