Perian

Version: 1.1.3 || Release Date: 2008-12-15 || License: GPL Developer: The Perian Team

QT plugin for many media types.

Perian is a free plugin that enables QuickTime to play almost every popular video format.

With Perian installed, any OS X application that uses QuickTime can now use these additional media types:

  • AVI, FLV, and MKV file formats
  • MS-MPEG4 v1 & v2, DivX, 3ivX, H.264, FLV1, FSV1, VP6, H263I, VP3, HuffYUV, FFVHuff, MPEG1 & MPEG2 Video, Fraps, Windows Media Audio v1 & v2, Flash ADPCM, Xiph Vorbis (in Matroska), MPEG Layer II Audio
  • AVI support for: AAC, AC3 Audio, H.264, MPEG4, and VBR MP3
  • Subtitle support for SSA and SRT

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27 Opinions

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primalmaster, 2008-08-03

if you watch many videos, this is a must-have!

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grayhat, 2008-07-05 (score: 2)

@oldsystem : No, Perian will not interfere with Flip4Mac's WMV Player

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oldsystem, 2008-07-04

I don't see .wmv support on the list. So this won't interfere with Flip4Mac then, right?

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norz, 2008-05-18

Video showing how to download a Flash Video file from YouTube, using only Safari and its activity window, then watch the flv file with quicktime:
http://perian.org/#watch

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ruudt, 2008-04-10 (score: -1)

I just banned VLC, not because VLC is bad, but beacause I only want to have one media-player :-).

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frankiec, 2008-02-07 (score: -2)

THIS IS THE BEST.

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norz, 2007-10-14

@ecable : try mplayer

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nkm, 2007-10-06

Essential.

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awazawazawaz, 2007-08-15 (score: 1)

Coupled with Quicktime Pro, this becomes the ultimate conversion software.

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tyggy, 2007-08-04 (score: 1)

Excellent! It does flv playback.

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