Format
Multimedia Viewer Book
Summary
- Name
- Multimedia Viewer Book
- Identifiers
- PUID: fmt/1800
- Format type
- Aggregate
- Description
- Multimedia Viewer Book is a format developed by Microsoft and used by programs such as Encarta to provide interactive, browsable multimedia. The format is very similar to the Microsoft Help .hlp format fmt/474, and a decompiler for the file format, helpdeco is available under a GNU license: https://github.com/pmachapman/helpdeco. The .hlp format this is based on was deprecated with Windows Vista.
- File extensions
-
mvb - Submitted by
- Preservica / Preservica
- Developed by
- Microsoft Corporation
Internal signatures
Multimedia Viewer Book
- Description
- BOF offset 0, 4 byte magic 0x3F5F0300, later SYSTEMHEADER 0x6C03, Format version WMVC/MMVC media view file: 0x1B00, Major version: 0x0100. Reference: http://delphi-kb.blogspot.com/2010/07/detailed-description-of-winhelp-file.html
Byte sequences
- Min Frag Length
- Absolute from BOF
- Offset
- 0
- Max offset
- 0
- Byte Sequence
3F5F0300*6C031B000100- Endianness
- None
Changelog
-
V110
- Release date
- 14 March 2023
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Added format
Multimedia Viewer Book: Full entry added. Submitted by Preservica.
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Added signature
Multimedia Viewer Book: Signature researched and samples provided by Preservica.