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DESCRIPTION
With Perian, the Swiss Army Knife for QuickTime, any OS X application that uses QuickTime can now use these additional media types:
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AVI, FLV, and MKV file formats
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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
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AVI support for: AAC, AC3 Audio, H.264, MPEG4, and VBR MP3
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Subtitle support for SSA and SRT
WHAT'S NEW
Version 1.2:
- Matroska cover art is now imported as iTunes cover art [r1149]
- Video tracks now have their colorspace set based on the size of the video [r1170]
Mac OS X 10.6/Snow Leopard compatibility fixes:
- QuickTime Player 10 refused to open some files due to missing type identifiers [r1126]
- Worked around 96khz HE-AAC audio tracks not playing or playing noise [r1128]
- Extended Front Row subtitle hack to cover 10.6 and reduced its ugliness [r1130, r1186]
- Worked around re-encoding files with subtitles not working [r1177]
- Worked around some MKV embedded fonts being incompatible with 10.6 [r1193]
- Fixed RGB HuffYUV video displaying black bars over the video on 10.6 [r1198]
- Now compiles under Xcode 3.2
Fixes:
- Using a debugger on a process with Perian loaded printed warnings about missing files [r1122]
- Fixed decoding of WMA audio tracks [r1131]
- Fixed a crash in LoadExternalSubtitlesFromFileDataRef [r1153]
- Fixed some VobSub video tracks displaying with wrong colors [r1171]
- Better support for tracks with delayed start times [r1181]
- Fixed MPEG1/2 in Matroska playing out of order [r1188]
- Fixed a crash opening files while they were being downloaded [r1227]
SSA:
- Fixed some top-aligned subtitles being too low [r1163]
- Vertical text is re-enabled and works somewhat better [r1208]
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.4.7 or later.
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| Perian User Reviews (105 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Feb 28 2010 |
SILIZIUM Does not play mpg2 still use VLC
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| Jan 6 2010 |
AIKOUSHA Worked effectively until the new update, now all but straight .mov and .mp4 files crash out QT. No exceptions. Don't know what happened, but it's bad on my system. I was hoping the new version would fix the dozen or so matroska and subtitle issues (subtitle size, turning on/off, selecting stream, loading externals to more than just .avis, new audio types, etc.). But, no luck. Now trying to find my copy of 1.1.4. Anxiously waiting for 1.2.1.
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 | Jan 6 2010 |
CHRISTOPHER FORSYTHE It'd be good if you reported this to us via the normal channels and not just a comment on a macupdate posting.
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| Jan 8 2010 |
TDU Having the same issues mentioned in your first paragraph.
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| Jan 15 2010 |
KOIBITO-SAN I tried, but after spending 20 minutes looking through "the normal channels," I still couldn't find a place for bug reporting. I know such a place existed before, as I posted to it on a previous version. But, when I had this issue, such a place could not be navigated to.
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 | Dec 20 2009 |
ROBBNASHVILLE I have always liked what Perian does. However, after installing the latest update I experienced a problem with some videos playing in QuickTime X in Snow Leopard. Basically I process recorded TV shows with Elgato's Turbo.264 HD to make AppleTV files. I then edit the commercials out in MPEG Streamclip and save them. This process has worked flawlessly for me for a long time. Today the videos I did would not play in QuickTime X, even though they would play in QuickTime 7 & other players. I decided to remove Perian and repeat the process with the video. After removing Perian, the resulting edited video played fine in QuickTime X as it always has. Anyone else notice anything like this?
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 | Dec 18 2009 |
I hear the developers are very few, and battling the "hidden API" of snow leopards QT-X as well. I don't really care for the technical details on how it works in SL, but it does. Just like ffdshow in windows (or ubuntu-restricted-extras in ubuntu linux), you free us from all these pesky codec packs. Audio normalizing, subtitle loading, a nice minimalistic preference pane - what can i say? That's just bloody excellent. Personally i haven't had any problems at all. Keep up the good work.
(Version 1.2) | |
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 | Dec 18 2009 |
PIXNIRI There is a Cnet Mirror: http://download.cnet.com/Perian/3000-2139_4-11133768.html?tag=bc
(Version 1.2) | |
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| Dec 17 2009 |
KOBALT A must have plug for QT! Big thanks to The Perian Team for continued development! May all your Xmas wishes come true. :-)
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| Nov 30 2009 |
COLIN Does not work on mkv files. Use VLC instead of this.
(Version 1.1.4) | |
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| Dec 18 2009 |
Though I would understand why you'd prefer to play MKVs in VLC (better controls, better performance, seeking improved)
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| Oct 14 2009 |
ARCHIVEMAC Works great and is very useful with Leopard. On Snow Leopard, it seems to have lots of problems as reported in Perian support forum. Most troubling, the forum moderator locked the thread reporting Snow Leopard problems. They do not appear interested in fixing the problems and do not want to hear about them. Problems in Snow Leopard include: - Some video types will play with audio but no video - Some video types will play but very poorly with jumpy video, possibly slow framerate. - Integration with Frontrow in particular has issues. - Some video file types cannot be handled directly by QuickTime10. Additional programs are needed as a bridge so that they can handle the file type and pass it to Quicktime with Perian to play. The end result is that Perian is currently much less useful on Snow Leopard until or if they can fix these problems. Hard to see how anything will be fixed if they don't want to hear about the issues. I do not know if installing Quicktime 7 solves any of these issues.
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| Dec 17 2009 |
THREEDEE912 It appears they locked the topic with 10.6 issues because they are already a known problem and users kept posting the same thing over and over again. They also noted most of the issues should be fixed in the next update.
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| Sep 9 2009 |
GREGMLR All you hear around cyberspace is how Perian is so fantastic, yet I'm yet to be able to get it to work on my Mac. It states it supports DivX encoded files but I am unable to open them without installing the actual DivX codec from divx.com, after that there are no issues. I've also not noticed any additional playback capabilities as a result of installing Perian without having to download the individual codecs from their respective developers. Seriously, don't waste your time.
(Version 1.1.4) | |
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| Sep 21 2009 |
4QVS Only because there is sth wrong on your system does not mean the PERIAN QT plug-in is so bad as you write here. I could trash almost all other plug-ins and it even works with QuickTime Pro (v 7). PMG5 D2GHz, MacOSX 10.5.8
(Version 1.1.4) | |
| Sep 22 2009 |
HSHIN OK. Another one of those who haven't seen or heard of an MKV file.
(Version 1.1.4) | |
| Oct 3 2009 |
ROBOTANK You must have done something wrong or be having an issue specific to your system. I've been using Perian for years, and it has always worked precisely as advertised. Don't post a one-star review because you're having an issue. Try to get it solved first.
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| Aug 31 2009 |
JFFS Snow Leopard and movies containing AC3 audio. If you can't get Quicktime X to open a file with AC3 audio, you need to use Command+I to set Quicktime X to open in 32-bit mode. If you don't the AC3 and A52 components included in Perian will not work. Hopefully there will be a 64-bit version of the AC3 components/Perian soon.
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