RB to MTV Converter

Convert Rocket eBook to MTV format — free, online

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Raytracing Format

Turn RB ebook pages into MTV — a raw image format designed for use in raytracing and 3D rendering environments.

Browser-Only Workflow

No downloads or installations needed. The full RB to MTV conversion happens in your web browser via Convertio.

Secure Pipeline

RB uploads are erased right after processing. MTV outputs are deleted from servers within 24 hours automatically.

How to convert RB to MTV

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Select files from Computer, Google Drive, Dropbox, URL or by dragging it on the page.

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Choose mtv or any other format you need as a result (more than 200 formats supported)

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Let the file convert and you can download your mtv file right afterwards

About formats

RB is the native ebook format of the Rocket eBook, one of the first commercially available dedicated e-reading devices, developed by NuvoMedia and released in October 1998. Founded by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning — who later co-founded Tesla Motors — NuvoMedia designed the Rocket eBook as a handheld device with a reflective LCD screen, capable of storing approximately ten books in its internal memory. The RB format packages HTML-based content along with embedded images, metadata, and a table of contents into a single binary container optimized for the device's limited hardware. Content was purchased and downloaded through NuvoMedia's RocketLibrarian desktop software. A notable advantage of the format was its early support for bookmarking, annotation, dictionary lookups, and adjustable font sizing — features now standard on modern e-readers but revolutionary in the late 1990s. The Rocket eBook demonstrated viable commercial demand for dedicated reading devices, paving the way for subsequent platforms from Sony, Amazon, and others. NuvoMedia was acquired by Gemstar-TV Guide International in 2000, which discontinued the device line in 2003. While RB files are largely a historical curiosity today, they can be converted to modern formats using ebook management tools, and the format remains significant as a pioneering chapter in the evolution of digital reading.
Developer: NuvoMedia
Initial release: 1998
MTV is a simple raster image format created by Mark T. VandeWettering for the MTV Ray Tracer, a ray tracing program released in 1988 as one of the early publicly available ray tracers distributed through Usenet. The format stores 24-bit RGB images with a minimal text header followed by raw pixel data. The header consists of a single line containing the image width and height as ASCII integers, followed immediately by the pixel data where each pixel occupies three bytes (red, green, blue) arranged in row-major order from top-left to bottom-right. The MTV Ray Tracer itself was significant in the history of computer graphics — distributed freely via the comp.graphics Usenet newsgroup, it introduced many programmers and students to the principles of ray tracing: ray-object intersection, reflection, refraction, shadows, and recursive shading. The MTV format was the program's native output, and its simplicity made it easy for users to write custom viewers and converters on whatever platform they had access to — a practical necessity in the fragmented Unix workstation landscape of the late 1980s. One advantage is extreme implementation simplicity: the format can be read in a handful of lines of code in any programming language, with no libraries, no compression algorithms, and no metadata parsing required — just read two integers and then read width x height x 3 bytes of pixel data. The format's historical significance in the computer graphics community provides another dimension — MTV files from early ray tracing experiments represent primary artifacts from the era when ray tracing transitioned from academic research to accessible software. MTV files are supported by ImageMagick and various legacy graphics tools.
Initial release: 1988

Frequently Asked Questions

Why convert RB to MTV?

RB is an obsolete ebook format. MTV is a raw image format for raytracing tools — useful if you need page imagery in a 3D pipeline.

What uses MTV files?

MTV raytracing software and ImageMagick-based tools process MTV files. It is a niche format for specific rendering workflows.

Is MTV a complex format?

No, MTV is deliberately simple — raw RGB data with a minimal header. This simplicity makes it easy to parse programmatically.

How fast does it convert?

Seconds. MTV files are uncomplicated and small, so encoding finishes rapidly on Convertio servers.

Is this conversion free?

Yes, RB to MTV is free on Convertio. Paid tiers provide batch conversion and higher file size limits.