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Perian

Perian - 1.2

QuickTime plugin that plays many video formats.

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This Version: Not rated (0.0)
Current Version: 1.2
Release Date: 2009-12-17
License: Freeware
Downloads (this version): 14,728
Downloads (all versions): 245,350

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Product Description:

Perian enables QuickTime application support for additional media types:

  • AVI, FLV, and MKV file formats
  • MS-MPEG4 v1 & v2, DivX, 3ivx, H.264, FLV/Sorenson Spark, FSV1, VP6, H263i, VP3, HuffYUV, FFVHuff, MPEG1 & MPEG2 Video, Fraps, Windows Media Audio v1 & v2, Flash ADPCM, Xiph Vorbis (in Matroska), and MPEG Layer II Audio
  • AVI support for: AAC, AC3 Audio, H.264, MPEG4, and VBR MP3
  • Subtitle support for SSA/ASS and SRT

What's new in this version:

  • Matroska cover art is now imported as iTunes cover art [r1149]
  • Video tracks now have their colorspace set based on the size of the video [r1170]
    Mac OS X 10.6/Snow Leopard compatibility fixes:
  • QuickTime Player 10 refused to open some files due to missing type identifiers [r1126]
  • Worked around 96khz HE-AAC audio tracks not playing or playing noise [r1128]
  • Extended Front Row subtitle hack to cover 10.6 and reduced its ugliness [r1130, r1186]
  • Worked around re-encoding files with subtitles not working [r1177]
  • Worked around some MKV embedded fonts being incompatible with 10.6 [r1193]
  • Fixed RGB HuffYUV video displaying black bars over the video on 10.6 [r1198]
  • Now compiles under Xcode 3.2
    Fixes:
  • Using a debugger on a process with Perian loaded printed warnings about missing files [r1122]
  • Fixed decoding of WMA audio tracks [r1131]
  • Fixed a crash in LoadExternalSubtitlesFromFileDataRef [r1153]
  • Fixed some VobSub video tracks displaying with wrong colors [r1171]
  • Better support for tracks with delayed start times [r1181]
  • Fixed MPEG1/2 in Matroska playing out of order [r1188]
  • Fixed a crash opening files while they were being downloaded [r1227]
    SSA:
  • Fixed some top-aligned subtitles being too low [r1163]
  • Vertical text is re-enabled and works somewhat better [r1208]

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

  • Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
  • Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
  • Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
  • Mac OS X 10.4 PPC

Additional Requirements:

  • Mac OS X 10.4.7 or higher

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Perian ReviewPerian is awesome and updater works - Version: 1.2, 12/17/2009 05:54PM PST

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develand
I love my Mac and I buy a lot of shareware so I am pretty used to automatic updates. Honestly, some of them don't work. Some offer the update and say "don't try and auto update" which is odd. And most use that one framework which help. There is no way I thought this would automatically update. Seems like a pretty big update and being a System Preferences little sub-app I thought it would never work

It did. Perfectly.

I have used Perian for a long time. One of those apps I always grab right away when re-configuring or moving into a new Mac.

Long live Perian!
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Perian CommentaryWhen encoding video, pass-through of DTS audio is currently broken in Perian - Version: 1.1.4, 12/13/2009 01:55AM PST

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Kudrabar
Here's one more problem with version 1.1.4 of Perian (from the HankBrake Guide SurroundSound page):

"VLC or Perian can decode DTS [audio] in .mkv files, but pass-through of DTS is currently broken in Perian. To use pass-through, make sure you have AC3 or DTS Passthru selected in the Audio Codecs pop-up menu."

Don't get me wrong -- I LOVE Perian, but this version has some serious problems (also read my comment below) that I assume the Perian team is working to overcome.

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Perian CommentaryMAJOR PROBLEM: Perian 1.1.4 is incompatible with x264 !! - Version: 1.1.4, 12/6/2009 03:26AM PST

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Kudrabar
ACCORDING TO THE DEVELOPER OF x264Encoder*:

"Perian 1.1.4 seems to have a regression in "multiple B-frames" movie support.
- Zero or One B-Frame movie[s] never hit this issue.
- [The] Movie itself is not broken.
- This issue does not occur under Apple H.264 decoder 7.6.x."

THIS PROBLEM MAKES IT IMPOSSIBLE TO USE THE FANTASTIC (and greatly superior) x264Encoder FOR CERTAIN ENCODING JOBS UNTIL PERIAN RELEASES A FIX. And, as evidenced by the posts above, this is not the only important reason to fix this version of Perian! I LOVE Perian, but this version has major issues.

* x264Encoder is an alternative implementation of Apple's own H.264 encoder which is substantially faster but produces higher quality video than H.264 (also sometimes written "h.264"). The developer of x264Encoder also offers the outstanding xvidEncoder and mp4vEncoder, which also improve on their respective namesake encoders. Checkout their reviews here and/or at MacUpdate.com (which is a much better software updating and reviewing website than VersionTracker.com that's not as subservient to the software and media industries as VersionTracker, which is owned by Viacom -- also the owner of Warner Bros., CBS, Comedy Central, Joost, and a host of software and other media companies that can have conflicts of interest with other software companies that list on VersionTracker). [I hope this comment makes it past the censors! :) ]
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