Perian
Current Version: 1.2.1 (March 24, 2010)
Perian is a free, open source QuickTime component (provided as a Preference Pane) that adds native support for many popular video formats, including:
- 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, TrueAudio, MP1, DTS audio
- AVI support for: AAC, AC3 Audio, H.264, MPEG4, and VBR MP3
- Subtitle support for SSA and SRT
Perian provides a great, free way to convert all of the above formats to other video formats using the QuickTime Player itself, including the iPod video format.
Version 1.2.1 adds/changes the following:
- Added Indeo 5 decoding.
- Fixed several bugs in Matroska support (1.2 regression).
- Incomplete AVI files were not fully imported (1.2 regression).
- Fixed subtitles crashing in 10.4.
- Fixed a rare crash with .mp4.
- No error was shown if the installer somehow failed. Note that it does not try to correct errors, only report them.
- Fixed crash in SSA support.
- Fixed invisible subtitles sometimes appearing over the first frame.
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