Perian

Licence: GPL
Version 1.1.2 | Release Date: 2008-10-20 | Download
  • Fixed update checker never running - this version requires a manual install
  • Enabled frame-dropping on AppleTV
  • Fixed some frames being lost in AVCHD/.mp4 with newer versions of QuickTime
  • Fixed another ffmpeg crash on G3s
Version 1.1.1 | Release Date: 2008-09-30 | Download
  • H.264 in AVI fixed
  • Some anamorphic AVI files are now supported
  • Performance problems due to PIC fixed with Xcode 3.1
  • Incorrect frame skipping on H.264 intra frames fixed
  • Better character set detection
  • The update checker is now much more polite
  • Several parsing and rendering bugs with subtitles fixed
  • Player freezing while loading subtitles with external fonts fixed
  • Audio fixed for some older MKV files with AAC/FLAC
  • Strange values in MKV chapters or video sizes are handled better
  • Initial support for SAMI subtitles added
  • Worked around a QuickTime bug causing frames to be lost during export
  • New codecs: DosBox ZMBV, VP6+Alpha, Nellymoser ASAO
  • FFmpeg: Crashing on PPC G3 fixed
  • FFmpeg: Fraps decoding artifacts fixed
Version 1.1 | Release Date: 2008-02-07 | Download
  • Major performance improvements
  • TrueAudio, MP1, and DTS audio support
  • Slice-based multithreaded decoding for MPEG-1/2/H.264
  • Apple H.264 now handles AVCHD/interlaced video
  • Compatibility fixes for QuickTime 7.4 and Leopard
  • Objective-C GC compatibility
  • Fixed a crash in Toast
  • Better subtitle rendering
  • Subtitles play during MKV loading
  • Snow support
  • Miscellaneous bug fixes
Version 1.0 | Release Date: 2007-06-29 | Download
  • Added support for Matroska/mkv
  • Integrated a52codec
  • Added subtitle support
  • Added support for .gvi (avi wrapper from Google Video)
  • Changed distribution to a Preference Pane in order to make installation simpler and configuration possible in the long term.
  • Changed installation directory from /Library/QuickTime to ~/Library/QuickTime.
  • Fixed avi/flv over http
  • Added support for Windows Media Audio in AVI
  • Added support for MPEG-1 layer 2 audio
  • Added support for the ADPCM audio codec in FLV
  • Added Vorbis decoder
  • Added support for Fraps FPS1
  • Added support for VP3
  • Added support for i263
  • Added support for HuffYUV
  • Added support for MPEG-1/2 video in AVI/MKV
  • Fix opening AVIs with VBR audio for which there is no available decoder
  • Fix crash with DVI ADPCM
  • Fix multichannel audio descriptions in AVI
  • Faster opening of AVI files
  • High profile H.264 support
  • Full MPEG-4 video support in .mp4
  • Altivec & SSE2 colorspace conversion
  • Fix DV in type 1 AVIs
Version .50 | Release Date: not specified | Download
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