Perian
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 The Perian System Preferences pane in Mac OS X Leopard |
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| Developer(s) | The Perian Team |
| Initial release | 2006-09-29 |
| Stable release | 1.1.4 / 2009-07-27 |
| Operating system | Mac OS X 10.4.7 or later |
| Platform | PPC, Intel |
| Development status | active |
| Type | Multimedia framework plug-in |
| License | LGPL |
| Website | perian.org |
Perian is an open source plug-in that enables Apple Inc.’s 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]
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[edit] Supported formats
Perian has support for the AVI, Flash Video, and Matroska container formats, as well as several video formats:[5]
- MPEG-4 Part 2
- MS-MPEG4 v1, v2 and v3
- H.263
- H.264
- Flash Screen Video
- Truemotion VP6
- HuffYUV - LossLess YCbCr Video Codec
- AVI Container support for:
[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.
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