Friday, June 11, 2010

Perian: The Swiss-Army Knife For QuickTime [Top 10 Mac Apps for Windows Switchers]

Ok, so you just loaded up your hack, double click an .avi file, and lo and behold QuickTime doesn't support the codec.  What to do?  Well, you could search Apple.com for add-ons, and individually download each one for QuickTime.  But smart users just get Perian.

Perian is an open-source FREE multi-codec component add-on for Mac OS X's built in multimedia player QuickTime which enables playback of multiple unsupported audio and video formats.


This application really broadens the scope of QuickTime, enabling video playback of MS-MPEG4 v1 & v2, DivX, 3ivx, H.264, Sorenson H.263, FLV/Sorenson Spark, FSV1, VP6, H263i, VP3, HuffYUV, FFVHuff, MPEG1 & MPEG2 Video, Fraps, Snow, NuppelVideo, Techsmith Screen Capture, DosBox Capture.  In addition, it opens up audio playback to Windows Media Audio v1 & v2, Flash ADPCM, Xiph Vorbis (in Matroska), and MPEG Layer I & II Audio, True Audio, DTS Coherent Acoustics, Nellymoser ASA.

Download and install, then forget that QuickTime doesn't naturally include all of this by default.

More: Top 10 Mac Apps for Windows Switchers

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