Sample MOV video files for testing — free, CC0, hotlinkable

MOV is Apple's QuickTime container, MP4's older sibling, and what iPhones and many cameras record. Both formats descend from the same file structure, so tools often accept one and stumble over the details of the other.

mov/720p-5s.mov is 1280x720 at 30 frames per second, five seconds long, with H.264 video and AAC audio. It is written with faststart, so the moov atom that indexes the media comes before the media itself and playback can begin before the whole file has downloaded.

Use it to test upload forms that must accept phone videos, transcoders, thumbnailers, and players that sniff the container rather than trusting the extension. The codecs match the MP4 and MKV fixtures, so a difference in behaviour points at the container. The file is generated synthetically, with no real footage.

curl -O https://loremfile.dev/mov/720p-5s.mov

<video src="https://loremfile.dev/mov/720p-5s.mov" controls></video>