About Perian
Perian is a free, open source QuickTime component that adds native support for many popular video formats.
Perian enables QuickTime application support for 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
What's New In This Version
- 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 (#5770288) causing frames to be lost during export
- New codecs: DosBox ZMBV, VP6+Alpha, Nellymoser ASAO
FFmpeg:
- Crashing on PPC G3 fixed
- Fraps decoding artifacts fixed
OS X 10.4.7 or later
File Size: 2.6MB
