Announcing nihav-movrender

I’m not yet ready to release it but it’s a good time to tell what I’ve been working on (and intend to keep working for a while). There are many valid QT MOV files on discmaster that are not decoded (or recognised for that matter, probably exactly for the reason they cannot be decoded). Looking manually into them often shows some exotic content not understood by any program (not even by QuickTime itself these days): Flash, MIDI, PDF, PPT, QT version of Flash aka sprites and so on. And in order to get some useful content out of such files I’m developing nihav-movrender. In theory it should be able to do at least this: extract various kinds of binary data; decode some exotic formats; assemble QTVR or navigable MOV panoramas from individual frames; merge tracks with multiple descriptors into one. Currently I have first two items done and the other two should be easier to deal with (unless I hit some unforeseen complication of course). Below I want to talk more about different content that…