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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 1.1.4:
Features:
- Forced VobSub subtitles are imported into a separate track [r1015]
- Added initial DTS passthrough via similar mechanisms as AC3 [r1024]
- Support old ffmpeg-generated MKV files with no enabled tracks [r1021]
- 10.6-compatible preference pane [r1085]
Fixes:
- Fixed "Load External Subtitles" checkbox [r998]
- Fixed crash/freeze when loading broken VobSub subtitles [r1000, r1034]
- Fixed import of uncompressed audio in FLV [r1007]
- Fixed import of some audio tracks; should improve iApps [r1042, r1088]
- Fixed CRAM codec AVI in browsers [r1010]
- Worked around bug in iChat codec loading [r1008]
- Never allows Apple's code to handle AC3 data anymore so passthrough works more often [r1014]
- Doesn't try to decode some RGB colorspaces (such as in Camtasia) that aren't supported [r1039]
- Fixed some 16-bit RGB codecs on Intel [r1039]
- Fixed importing movie files with no video tracks (regression from r706) [r1042]
- Fixed H264 crash in put_h264_qpel8_h_lowpass_l2_ssse3 (in FFmpeg)
- Fixed crash with corrupt first frame [r1061]
- Fixed BMP/RLE in AVI [r1078]
- Fixed several memory leaks [r1086]
- Fixed a problem with wrong channel order in DTS 5.1 [r1076]
- Fixed possible conflict with UniversalDetector.framework [r1100]
Subtitles:
- Fixed garbage characters appearing at the end of a line with some fonts [r1013]
- Better handling of invalid SSA files [r1013]
- Fixed rendering of multi-layer subtitles [r1016]
- Fixed SRT files using ',' for decimals [r1019]
- Ignored SSA shapes and \blur instead of misparsing them [r1027, r1036]
- Disabled vertical font support again to fix files wrongly using it for Latin text [r1027]
- Fixed subtitles in MKV wrongly displaying at the end of a video [r1036]
- Better handling of \move and \org [r1063, r1103]
Notes:
- Compilation under 10.4 is no longer supported.
- A52Codec has been deprecated and will be replaced by an LGPL decoder in a future release.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.4.7 or later.
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| Perian User Reviews (98 posts) | Write A Review |
 | 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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| 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.
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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
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| Sep 22 2009 |
HSHIN OK. Another one of those who haven't seen or heard of an MKV file.
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| 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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| Aug 29 2009 |
ADMIRAL_POTATO This little tool is pretty great. I installed it to play back some FLVs in QuickTime Player, and I was _quite_ surprised at how much better(smoother and un-garbled) the video was through this than it had been even when played back through the latest (1.0.1) VLC. I am even running this on an older machine; a 1.25 Ghz Powerbook G4! Very useful tool!
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 | Aug 5 2009 |
4QVS Dont trash Flip4Mac WMV Player plugin!! You will need it for files in the M$ proprietary format .wmv or .wma I dont like the Flip4Mac installer but for now it is still the only way to go. You may move unwanted files after installation ;o)
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| Aug 3 2009 |
LAMPOON Previously I used VLC and Flip4Mac but after I tried this I deleted VLC and Flip4Mac. This is a much better codec lib for Quicktime (also works with Quicktime-X). VLC did not play all my xvid movies with correct sound (hell, sometimes without) but Perian played them all flawless ! I can highly recommend this video codec lib !! All you need imo
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| Aug 3 2009 |
MISHA Agreed. But don't trash VLC so quickly... if you ever move on to media encoded with x264 and stored in a .mkv container, Perian forces you to pre-load the whole thing in QuickTime before you can watch it (which can take several minutes depending on your Mac and file size). VLC will play throws straight away.
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| Jul 30 2009 |
KEMPHADLEY CD Text writing option on iTunes 8.2.1 doesn't function when Perian 1.1.4 is installed.
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| Aug 3 2009 |
LAMPOON Bogus .. works perfect here.
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| Jul 28 2009 |
REZZO.LATAM Thanks devs, this version work flawless. First I use AppZapper to remove old version and before install (to all users) the 1.1.4
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| Jul 28 2009 |
GEORGE PAPHITIS Does Perian 1.1.4 resolve the conflict with iChat AV seen with ver 1.1.3 where you cannot see the person you are connected to during a video chat but they can see you? This did not occur with ver 1.1.2 which I reverted to. Both the Perian developers and Apple are finger pointing at each other as to who is to blame.
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| Jul 28 2009 |
FLASH1296 I went back to the prior version. If others report trouble-free use of this version, I will try reinstalling.
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