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| Original author(s) | minge |
| Developer(s) | The Perian Team |
| Initial release | 29 September 2006 |
| Stable release | 1.2.3 / 23 July 2011 |
| Development status | active |
| Operating system | Mac OS X 10.4.7 or later |
| Platform | PPC, Intel |
| Type | Multimedia framework plug-in |
| License | LGPL |
| Website | perian.org |
Perian is an open source QuickTime component that enables Apple Inc.’s QuickTime to play several popular video formats not supported natively by QuickTime on Mac OS X.[1] It is a joint development of several earlier open source components based on the multiplatform FFmpeg project's libavcodec and libavformat, as well as 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]
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[edit] Supported formats
Perian lends support for many combinations of video, audio, text, and container formats to QuickTime, including the following:[5] [6]
AV codec support for the following:
- MPEG-4 Part 2
- MS-MPEG4 v1, v2 and v3
- H.263
- H.264
- Flash Screen Video
- Truemotion VP6 & VP3
- HuffYUV
- Xiph Vorbis (in Matroska)
- Snow wavelet video
- DOSBox video
- DTS Coherent Acoustics audio
- Nellymoser Asao Codec
- Windows Media Audio (WMA) v1 & v21
- Dolby Digital
- Fraps
- Indeo 2, 3 and 5
- WebM/VP8
- FFV1
- Theora
Subtitle support for the following:
- (Advanced) SubStation Alpha
- SRT
- SAMI
- VobSub
Container format support for the following:
[edit] See also
- Windows Media Components for QuickTime
- Xiph QuickTime Components
- Combined Community Codec Pack (A similar bundle for Windows)
[edit] References
- ^ "Perian - A swiss-army knife for QuickTime". http://perian.org/. Retrieved 2006-10-14.
- ^ Pash, Adam (2006-09-30). "Download of the Day: Perian (Mac)". http://www.lifehacker.com/software/quicktime/download-of-the-day-perian-mac-204423.php. Retrieved 2006-10-14.
- ^ Biven, Michael (2006-10-04). "Infinite Loop: Perian, bringing playback for all to Apple’s QuickTime". http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2006/10/4/5506. Retrieved 2006-10-14.
- ^ Chartier, David (2006-09-30). "Perian - play most video formats in QuickTime for free". http://www.tuaw.com/2006/09/30/perian-play-most-video-formats-in-quicktime-for-free/. Retrieved 2006-10-14.
- ^ "SupportedFormats - Perian Quicktime Component". http://trac.perian.org/wiki/SupportedFormats. Retrieved 2006-10-14.
- ^ "Perian Support (Version History)". http://perian.org/#support. Retrieved 2011-04-13.
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