MTV Video (.AMV)

File Format
Name	MTV Video (.AMV)
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Video MTV Video (.AMV)
Extension(s)	.amv

MTV Video (.AMV) is one of a pair of related video file formats that go by a virtually identical set of names. The formats are associated with some Chinese portable video/music players. This article covers the one whose file extension is usually .AMV, and which begins with a "RIFF" signature. For the other one, see MTV Movie (.MTV).

Format details

.AMV is kind of like a cheap knock-off of AVI. It looks like it uses RIFF, but it is not valid RIFF.

Identification

.AMV files start with ASCII "RIFF", have "AMV " at offset 8, and (usually?) bytes 00 00 00 00 at offset 4.

Software

• FFmpeg (Classifies the format as AVI.)

Sample files

• https://samples.ffmpeg.org/amv/
• dexvert samples — video/mtvVideo

Links

• MultimediaWiki article
• Wikipedia: AMV video format - Apparently covers both formats.