Perian

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Perian
Developed by The Perian Team
Initial release 2006-09-29
Latest release 1.1 / 2008-02-06
OS Mac OS X 10.4.7 or later
Platform PPC, Intel
Genre Multimedia framework plug-in
License LGPL
Website perian.org

Perian, advertised as a "swiss-army knife for QuickTime," is an open source plug-in which enables QuickTime to play several popular video formats not supported natively by QuickTime on Mac OS X[1]. It is largely based on the FFmpeg project, as it uses libavcodec and libavformat. It also uses liba52 and libmatroska.

It has been featured as the "Download of the Day" on Lifehacker,[2] as well as on several popular blogs including Ars Technica[3] and The Unofficial Apple Weblog.[4]

[edit] Supported formats

Perian adds support for the AVI, FLV, and MKV container formats, as well as several video codecs:[5]



[edit] References

  1. ^ Perian - A swiss-army knife for QuickTime. Retrieved on 2006-10-14.
  2. ^ Pash, Adam (2006-09-30). Download of the Day: Perian (Mac). Retrieved on 2006-10-14.
  3. ^ Biven, Michael (2006-10-04). Infinite Loop: Perian, bringing playback for all to Apple’s QuickTime. Retrieved on 2006-10-14.
  4. ^ Chartier, David (2006-09-30). Perian - play most video formats in QuickTime for free. Retrieved on 2006-10-14.
  5. ^ SupportedFormats - Perian Quicktime Component. Retrieved on 2006-10-14.

[edit] See also

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