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A free plugin that enables QuickTime to play almost every popular codec!!!

perian.org — Allowes Quicktime for Mac to play: * Divx, XviD, FLV, AVI * MS-MPEG4 v1, MS-MPEG4 v2, MS-MPEG4 v3, DivX 3.11 alpha, 3ivX, Sorenson H.263, Flash Screen Video, Truemotion VP6 * These formats when they are inside an AVI: h.264, mpeg4, AAC, AC3 Audio, and VBR MP3. Wow.

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  • utch, on 10/12/2007, -20/+9Wow this is a nice little upgrade for quicktime, anyone know when it will be availible
    • Ireland, on 10/12/2007, -30/+20Two questions:
      1. Why isn't something like this already bundled with quicktime?
      2. What if you don't live in USA, Germany, France, Japan, Taiwan or Australia? (how do you download)
    • neiltc13, on 10/12/2007, -108/+191. Because it costs money to develop
      2. Move to a better country
    • RatherDashing, on 10/12/2007, -5/+41Another question: Is it a Universal Binary?
    • farfromsubtl, on 10/12/2007, -13/+5The best part about these 3rd party QT codec is that it will allow spotlight to play DiVX movies.
    • zirtbow, on 10/12/2007, -9/+70Quicktime is all right but I still don't like it that much. As for being able to play multiple formats VLC player seems to handle a ton of them.

      http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

      that or I just don't use that many different formats. Either way everything I have tried in it works great.
    • Ireland, on 10/12/2007, -42/+60"1. Because it costs money to develop 2. Move to a better country"

      Gosh, you're an *****!!
    • kent1146, on 10/12/2007, -2/+141. I think that the licensing for a lot of these codecs allow for free use for end-users, but will require licensing costs if bundled with a commercial applicaiton. Basically, if the end-user were to supply these codecs (via plug-in), they are free. If Apple were to supply these codecs, Apple would have to pay.

      2. I'm sure you could find a mirror somewhere. Find out what the filename is, and do a search for that filename. What about anonymizer, or another public proxy? Couldn't you connect to that, and then use the proxy to connect to your download?
    • peorth, on 10/12/2007, -3/+34@zirtbow : yeah, but you can't use VLC with front-row :(
    • J6stik, on 10/12/2007, -32/+12""1. Because it costs money to develop 2. Move to a better country"

      Gosh, you're an *****!!"

      Yeah! Jee golly dag nabit, mister!
    • jwyles, on 10/12/2007, -21/+4Is quicktime that great of a player or interface to make so many of you excited and eagar to grab this plugin? I can think of at least two other players I would MUCH rather have play videos for me than anything out of the Apple camp...
    • masamunecyrus, on 10/12/2007, -12/+7Might I add that the Combined Community Codec Pack (CCCP) is very good? It is for Windows, however.
      http://www.cccp-project.net/

      Also, if you're an avid anime fan, you've probably noticed by now, but maybe you haven't -- VLC does not support formatted subtitles. So chances are, if you're watching an anime that doesn't have the subtitles built-in to the video (i.e., a .mkv or .ogm, as opposed to a .avi) and it has formatted subtitles, you may notice that VLC's subtitles look like crap. I'm not sure if Media Player Classic has formatted subtitles or not, but I use Zoom Player for things like that. Also, I'm relatively sure that Windows Media Player can also display formatted subtitles, albeit only with the plugins and codecs that CCCP installs (ffdshow, DirectShow, etc...).
    • vramdal, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18@jwyles
      Because Quicktime is what's being used in Front Row.
    • jmazzi, on 10/12/2007, -4/+30I built a copy and posted install instructions here. It *is* a universal build.

      http://r00tshell.com/archives/2006/09/29/universal-build-of-perian-05/
    • StarManta, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4masamawhatever, i watch softsubbed anime regularly on VLC. I'm not sure where you got the idea it doesn't work with it....
    • alloneword, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2@Ireland.

      They are just mirrors (which are down atm.) Anyone can download it.

      MPlayer, VLC, and they don't charge for a full screen function.
    • masamunecyrus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5@StarManta:

      I watched... I forget which anime, it may have been Midori no Hibi....

      In anycase, there were two subtitle options -- formatted subtitles and unformatted subtitles. The formatted subtitles looked terrible, i.e., they were a large, Arial font with 1px light blue outlines that looked like someone applied a "noise" filter to them. Then I switched to the unformatted subtitles, and those worked fine, because they were plain text.

      When I switched to Zoom Player, however, the formatted subtitles had a custom font and a thick outline, and they also weren't stationary at the bottom of the screen. They could be placed anywhere and moved along with signs that were in kanji, etc...


      Maybe I was using an old version of VLC, or maybe my computer's broken, but that's why I said that VLC doesn't support formatted subtitles. Certainly you can format the subtitles using the menus in VLC's options, but that's just text formatting. It's subtitles that are themselves formatted, seperate from the media player, that VLC seems to have trouble reading properly.
  • sleepwalker, on 10/12/2007, -8/+12links to download are dead
    • Cputerace, on 10/12/2007, -24/+16My question is Why???

      What possible reason would you have for wanting good video to be stuck in a player that you have to pay to get full screen?

      You should only ever have to worry about the other way around... watching craptime movies in a real media player.
    • jwyles, on 10/12/2007, -12/+2@Cputerace

      If I could +10 you, I would...
    • alangh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20For the uninformed out there.. MOST of the native Mac OS X video solutions (insert your favorite player name here) use QuickTime as the basis for their video decoding..

      So, by using perian, all of your players will be able to handle these new video formats. It just so happens that the Apple marketing team has decided to use QuickTime to mean everything from the basic encoding/decoding libraries to a player that may not have the features you like.

      Perian is still useful even if you don't use the QuickTime player...
    • snosons, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16@Cputerace

      FrontRow
    • Cputerace, on 10/12/2007, -10/+1If you want to know how to stop quicktime from dropping that annoying blue Q in your taskbar and from stealing your system resources even when its not being used, i have instructions on my site:

      http://digg.com/software/No_I_can_t_fix_your_computer_but_here_is_a_website_that_will_help
    • sv650touring, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5@Cputerace
      Quicktime is more than just the fairly lame player, and free full screen is just a Google search away. Now, go back to plugging your web site like a good spammer.
    • DelMonte, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1While I agree Apple should give the Full-Screen option for free (and keep the Export options for the Pro), there are many free players that use Quicktime on the Mac and that can play full screen without problems, each one of them will automatically any codec you add to Quicktime.

      Quicktime is a multimedia architecture, not just a program playing videos. Other programs can use Quicktime to play video without any restriction.

      The Pro license only affect the "Quicktime Player" application, Apple provides very documented APIs for third-parties to create applications with as much or more functionality as the QT Pro Player.

      Apple is aware of this and doesn't mind at all. If anything it creates a wider market for third-party QT players and it gets more Mac programmers interested in Quicktime programming.
  • naboban, on 10/12/2007, -10/+1Is this a hoax? The download-links lead to the same page, http://perian.org !
  • tsunamisteve, on 10/12/2007, -5/+17If you download the Divx plug-in set and Flip4Mac (both free), most things will play fine.
    • StarManta, on 10/12/2007, -11/+7Really, they don't.
    • bonchx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5@StarManta:

      Yes, they do.  Just like installing DivX on Windows installs a DirectShow filter for watching DivX movies in Windows Media Player and any other DirectShow app, installing DivX on OS X installs a Quicktime codec for watching DivX movies in Quicktime player and any other Quicktime app, including Front Row.  In fact, there are already other bundle packs you can download that have a bunch of Quicktime codecs.  You simply copy them to Quicktime's plug-in folder in your ~/Library folder.

      After installing DivX and Flip4Mac, I have never come across a video file I couldn't play on the Mac, though I keep VLC around just in case.
    • kaplanfx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Not if its AC3, the stand alone AC3 plugin for quicktime was horrible, why can't people just use .mp3, sure the quality isn't as good, but it can be played basically anywhere.

      -Kap
    • DelMonte, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1"why can't people just use .mp3, sure the quality isn't as good, but it can be played basically anywhere."

      Because choice is good! Let's bring the total count of incompatible audio/video formats to 50,000! That would be even more choice for us! Let's invent tons of incompatible codec variations so that we can pick and choose to precisely meet our needs!

      There should be 50,000 video formats and multimedia players should play all of these, as I said already, choice is good!

      /sarcasm
    • StarManta, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'm not sure where you get your videos... but the vast majority of video files on my hard drive (which are, admitedly, less than completely legitimate) still wouldn't play after installing Xvid and Divx codecs.

      Just personal experience.
    • CountSessine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0StarManta:
      Again, this is more than likely a AC3 issue, unless you can't see the video playback at all. I can easily get video in FrontRow, but not audio when it's in AC3.
  • MikeDawg, on 10/12/2007, -30/+20Too bad Quicktime Movie Player is such a big freakin' turd. That is one thing I can definitely say that MS has done better than Apple on, I would take Windows Media Player over Quicktime any day.
    • theragu40, on 10/12/2007, -20/+11Couldn't have said it better myself. I have tried to like Quicktime. I really have. But I can't bring myself to do so. It's clunky, doesn't have enough options, and most of its good features all have that irritating "PRO ONLY" tag next to them. I'm not paying for what I can have for free with WMP or any one of the many excellent free and open source players available.
    • kolywater, on 10/12/2007, -2/+37the best thing about quicktime is the development libraries. it handles lots of difficult tasks automagically.

      also: qt for windows blows. qt for mac is great.
    • msikma, on 10/12/2007, -8/+14That's true. It's just bizarre how you can't even watch videos in FULL SCREEN without having to pay Apple money. It's also worthless that it's nearly impossible to get proper support for the program; my friend bought it for Windows but could not install it due to "errno -1".
      Thankfully, if I'm right, it'd also be possible to use all of those formats in iTunes if you get them to work in Quicktime.
    • althe3rduww, on 10/12/2007, -1/+24Keep in mind that windows media for the mac is horrible to the point that it now no longer exists. FlipforMac has atleast taken over that spot. When windows media for mac did exist it was far worse for the mac than it was for windows. So its not that suprising the quicktime for the pc is clunky and bad when quicktime for the mac works great.
    • DrPh0bius, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19@msikma

      Go into the Finder and then applications.
      Find the app called "Script Editor".
      Launch it and in the box type this:

      tell application "QuickTime Player"
      present front movie scale screen
      end tell

      Press the compile button, then save the script somewhere convinient

      Launch it and when you open a QT file, press play on the app, instead of the QT clip.
    • TheDragonTony, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17QuickTime is A LOT better on OS X than it is on Windows... and WMP is (or was since they just have you use Flip for Mac now) a POS on OS X. Also on a mac at least you can run free QuickTime in full screen if you run this apple script:


      tell application "QuickTime Player"
      present front movie scale screen
      end tell


      I would imagine that you can get it done with Windows somehow...
    • XdigitalXdeathX, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0Umm, Piracy is how you get it.
  • astrotrain, on 10/12/2007, -26/+5Why use Quicktime to play codecs... get WinAmp or another Free player, and grab
    a nice Mega Codec pack over at "Free Codecs" (http://www.free-codecs.com/).

    I prefer the "K-Lite Mega Codec Pack" has everything in it and always updated monthly.
    • shuffle, on 10/12/2007, -4/+20Uh, because those components and packages you just listed aren't for the mac? And thats what this article is about?
  • ikkebra, on 10/12/2007, -13/+7Is the plugin called VLC?
    • Ub3rg33k, on 10/12/2007, -23/+7I was thinking the same thing. QT is just garbage.
    • jonnyeh, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15Quicktime is used as a backend for other mac apps like frontrow and itunes, this would be useful for that reason
  • DollaDollaBill, on 10/12/2007, -34/+9quicktime is a piece of *****
  • charbarred, on 10/12/2007, -18/+4What I need is a free plugin that enables quicktime on any other media player...and while you're at it, remove the goddamn qt icon from my taskbar.
    • rssurvivor, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13you can remove the icon using the settings of quicktime -.-
    • charbarred, on 10/12/2007, -14/+6I know. I can also kill the 400 processes iTunes starts on my computer, but why should I have to?
    • durzagott, on 10/12/2007, -6/+9I totally agree with charbarred. QT for Windows used to be a great little media player, now it's just bloatware. I put it right up there with RealPlayer. Anything that adds an icon in the task tray by default, without my expressed approval, is begging to be uninstalled. It's a bloody media player, it doesn't need to be running a fracking process all the fracking time!!!!
    • PowerCat, on 10/12/2007, -7/+5Install these programs so that your Windows Media Player can play quicktime and Real media files without having to install quicktime or real, on windows obviously.

      http://www.free-codecs.com/download/Real_Alternative.htm
      http://www.free-codecs.com/download/QuickTime_Alternative.htm
    • bonchx, on 10/12/2007, -4/+13@charbarred:

      "I know. I can also kill the 400 processes iTunes starts on my computer, but why should I have to?"

      By 400, do you mean the single idle background service that simply watches for a connected iPod and takes no CPU or memory?

      Or were you just being a hyperbolic Apple-hater?  It's almost as if you're unaware of how many processes are running on Windows just for Windows Media Player...
  • clesch, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1Page dead for me too, guess it's the digg effect. We'll see in a few hours...
  • kefs, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Props for putting "for Mac" in the blurb.. Appreciated as a Window User.
    • zonk3r, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3It was almost a perfect blurb and title until he put "Wow" and "!!!" in there too...
  • ABadInAlbany, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1hook up this plugin for quicktime x86, and Apply will have a convert-4-life!
  • asdf2k, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4just a hint: /beta
    Works fine here... but keep in mind that it's a beta.
  • stalefries, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6http://duggmirror.com/apple/A_free_plugin_that_enables_QuickTime_to_play_almost_every_popular_codec
  • joebob2406, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16I'm not sure if many of you have new intel macs but having quicktime playing all your media makes it a hell of a lot easier for itunes and front row integration. As soon as someone mirrors this site or it becomes active again, i'll definitely be installing it on my intel mac.
    • kolywater, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13agreed. qt on a mac has much better integration than mplayer or vlc, and i'd bet money most of the negative quicktime comments are from window's users. qt for windows sucks, unfortunately.
    • DaffyDuck, on 10/12/2007, -6/+3"As soon as someone mirrors this site or it becomes active again, i'll definitely be installing it on my intel mac."

      No you won't. At least not yet. All download links point to the main page.
    • gharding, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Yeah, I'd run Quicktime more if it actually played any of my files. Luckily it looks like this may have the solution!
    • DaffyDuck, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1Why was I dugg down? You can't download a binary yet. That is plain fact.
    • joebob2406, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1I've already installed it and it looks like it freaks quicktime right out. If you just open quicktime without having a video loaded, two things have happend for me. Once it shrunk to the size of the close button. The 2nd time, the entire window was great and had no functionality.
    • DaffyDuck, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Hmm...
      So they removed the download links? They must have done so before this made it to the front page on digg then.
  • pmuse, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3One reason I can immediately think of for such a torrent is that it will allow one to play these files in Front Row.
  • thesilverfox06, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2I'm a regular viewer of the posts on the cocoaforge forums of the guy who's making Perian, and I can tell he's not gonna be happy that his beta software got posted on digg.
  • imightbewrong, on 10/12/2007, -8/+3if you can't go full screen why bother? get VLC!
  • ZeroMP, on 11/06/2007, -25/+3Sorry to say but quicktime blows on ice...

    Go get a real codec pack and use VLC or MPC to play. Add QuickTime Alternative and get rid of that garbage alltogether. Why anyone would want to use quicktime more than they absolutely have to (which is 0% by my last calculation) is beyond me.

    The best part about Quicktime is that once installed it reaaaally wants to live in your system tray and start up automatically and take over playback of everything. Pathetic. /uninstall.

    Oh and itunes is EQUALLY lame get over yourself mac fanboys.
    • DaffyDuck, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9This is in the Apple section and the link specifically refers to it's use in OS X, where Quicktime is actually quite good, especially if you upgrade to the Pro version.
    • kolywater, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8note: qt for windows suck, but qt for mac is great. this article has "for mac" in the blurb. /troll
    • Kypt, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2One of main reasons I don't use QT that much is the lack of a "Float on Top" feature. I like to browse while i watch anime or tv, yet if everytime I click somewhere else it goes to background. Till I can find something that fixes this on my MBP, VLC for me
    • DaffyDuck, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Kypt: Have you tried Trans Lucy?
      http://www.translucy.com/6BB3A851-057C-47F4-873C-E1ADD593FEE8.html
    • Kypt, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3No I have not but I'll give it a shot. After making that comment I found about a pref-pane called AFloat that adds transparency and always on top features to lots of mac apps. I'll see if your option is better. Thanks :)
  • mikesherov, on 10/12/2007, -33/+3OMG!!! Codecs!!! Superfluous exclamation!!! Is this what mac users have to be excited about?
    • kolywater, on 10/12/2007, -7/+4bye troll!
    • WalterDirt, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12You obviously have mac envy, sorry your momma couldn't buy you a mac, maybe Santa will.
  • ThinkFr33ly, on 10/12/2007, -8/+3How about a plugin that lets Quicktime not suck at streaming content?
  • raikoh, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2too bad MPC does not exist for macs... I don't love quicktime, and VLC doesn't work for everything, despite popular belief. Someone totally needs to get on that and make a CCCP pack for macs, for serious. not seeing your mac videos when you use mpc in windows on your dual boot sucks.
  • muka3d, on 10/12/2007, -15/+1ffdshow + MPC is the best combo. Plays everything. Grab QT Alternative if you need Quicktime support without windows.

    ffdshow: http://download.betanews.com/download/1054056131/FFdshow-20060821.zip
    MPC: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/guliverkli/mpc2kxp6490.zip?download
    QT Alt.: http://download.betanews.com/download/1049831315-1/quicktimealt176.exe
    • jonnyeh, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5This is about the mac, you can't get those things for the mac, jeez!
  • Huevoos, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Is it just a dream to think that somewhere out there is a codec to play rm on qt???
    I need to convert a bunch of .rm videos.
    Any help???

    P.S. The word codec is not on the spell checker, odd
  • modsuperstar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5The codec I want them to release is one that plays RealVideo in Quicktime like Flip4Mac does for WMV. I hate Real(as do most people), but I find that there always seems to be a site that only offers its content in that format, so I always end up periodically using it. These codecs seem like they would be useful, but given I already have the official DivX codecs installed I don't run into very many files that won't play on my machine.
    • Kypt, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4You mean asian porn? :P That's only thing that i've seen that uses R consistently.
    • chirs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0We'll get there eventually with Perian. The end goal is that Perian would be the only component you need (except maybe Flip4mac)
  • WITFITS, on 10/12/2007, -11/+1I prefer Quicktime Alternative (http://www.codecguide.com/about_qt.htm).
  • juzzyp, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3More pertinently, QTime on a Mac is a much better experience than WMV Player on a Mac. That thing is a dog, especially when streaming when you rarely get options for "skipping" through a video.
    FlipForWMV works fine except on Opera, where it usually crashes the browser after half the download.

    The AppleScript hack above to show in Fullscreen without the Pro version works great. Connect it to a definable mouse button for ease of use!
    • silic0n, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Just get a dodgy QuickTime Pro key. Apple deserve it for having the balls to charge for fullscreen.
  • metaphysical, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Is there a way to stream .asx files within OS X? I can't, for the life of me, get any program to do this (I already have Flip4Mac, VLC, and ffmpegX, and some radio dashboard widgets installed). I just want to listen to some streaming audio without having to keep my browser open.

    BTW a mirror for the actual dmg would be great.
    • metaphysical, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Well I'll be damned-- I just tried using VLC for a stream and it WORKED. Imagine that. I guess the stream was down when I tried the first time. In case anyone's been wondering, VLC plays asx streams! :)
    • WiseWeasel, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Out of curiosity, what's wrong with just mounting a network share and playing over the network that way? I don't see the point in setting up a streaming server in addition to the regular filesharing services... except maybe if you're playing back on some special dedicated hardware that can't mount network shares...
    • metaphysical, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@ WiseWeasel
      I want to stream a remote internet radio station, not something within my network.
  • boxninja, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1If only there were a plugin that allows you to play QT content in anything else. QT for Windows is pathetic and there is nothing available for Linux except support for some of the older formats. Is there a way to play the most recent QT formats in Linux?
    • smeager, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1QT formats????

      Quicktime is just a container for a maltitude of codecs. If you want to play OT on linux just use one of the players avaliable to it, Xine, Mplayer, VLC, Totem, etc.... And if you want more support just look for W32codecs and you'll be able to play most anything thats thrown your way (even WMV and WMA).
  • iNik, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Site's diggbombed.

    http://www.duggmirror.com/
  • crlake, on 10/12/2007, -8/+0Holy Sh_t! That's fan-fringging-tasic. That Steve Job's is a bastard. Once a person decides NOT to deal with Apple, (or "Just the iPod and that's it!"), he brings somethng out that is EXTREMELY useful... BASTARD.
    • alangh, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2you can thank Graham (not Steve) for this excellent collection
  • gbooker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9From a developer:

    The reason the download links do not work is because this was not released yet. It is in a limited beta. This is real, but just not quite ready yet. Please be patient.

    Yes, it is a universal binary, weighing it at just under a meg.

    These format are just the tip of the iceburg. More are coming in the future.

    We explicity asked:
    Do not post this beta to version tracking or news sites
    Do not advertise this beta on forums, mailing lists, etc
    So much for following directions.

    P.S. The site started loading better after I brought the MaxClients in apache2 from 20 to 128.
    • cfsporn, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2sorry. My bad.
    • cfsporn, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I first saw it on osx.iusethis.com
    • ayeroxor, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1"I first saw it on osx.iusethis.com"

      Strangely, it seems nobody gives a *****.
    • cfsporn, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1I was saying that if the dev does not want people to see it, then they should not have posted it to osx.iusethis.com
    • OwlBoy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Well, you do know they (The Devs) did not post it there right?
  • kdbarto, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1the first source file I looked at has a bug! ReadSegmentInfo always returns noErr if it gets past the first tests, even if QTCopyMovieMetaData fails.

    Code quality isn't very good if I can find a bug in the FIRST source code module I look at.
    • gbooker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3You must be referring to the Matroska code, since that is the only place I see ReadSegmentInfo. The MKV code is in repository, but not yet used. It was checked in from another project so that we can begin working on it in a later release.
    • chirs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1We accept patches.
  • TJPile, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5I am going to be a dick and post a link I found for a .5 beta.

    http://brok3n.org/perian/Perian_0.5b1.dmg

    Sorry.
    • jtjdt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5If that link goes down, I also mirrored the file at gigasize.

      http://www.gigasize.com/get.php/91700/Perian_0.5b1.dmg
    • chirs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Thanks for increasing my bandwidth bill.
    • chirs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Also, don't download this b1, it has some issues.

      We'll have a release out in a few days. This digg posting set us back.
    • jtjdt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Here is Perian 0.5 beta 4

      http://www.gigasize.com/get.php/93647/Perian_0.5b4.dmg

      Fixed a potential crash with FLV files.
      Resolved some localization issues with the disk image background.
      Perian can now play files with a .divx extension
      Fixed some alignment issues in the DMG.
      Resolved issue with storing MP3 audio in AVI in the same way AC3 audio is normally stored. (Commit 98)
      Incremented the component version number so that Perian is used rather than old versions of AviImporter or FFusion. (Commit 99)
      Perian now closes the file after validation.
  • duhblow7, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2For those who don't want to pay to get a professional version of quicktime, mplayer is a good alternative. It has been compiled for unix, win32 and osx. win32 seems a little buggy but it will rock as it matures. unix verison is solid. i don't know about the osx version.

    http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html
    • WiseWeasel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yes, MPlayer OSX (currently v. 1.0pre8) is a great movie player for MacOS X. I had to find some font package and install it manually for soft subs to work, which was a bit tricky, but now it's working perfectly. Mplayer handles *everything* (that matters anyways), and has a nice interface, and lets you skip back and forward with the arrow keys, which is very handy. VLC is pretty nice, but for the ultimate compatibility (especially with mkv files), mplayer is #1 for me.
  • Gatesophile, on 10/12/2007, -9/+2The question is: Why would you want it to?
  • rawheadrex, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5This is worth it for the FLV support alone. Nothing else on the Mac (VLC, Mplayer, etc.) can handle .flv files (e.g., from Google Video). THANK YOU!


    And to most of those doofuses bitching about QuickTime... this is a plugin for QuickTime on OSX, hence Mac specific. And on a Mac, QuickTime, with all its flaws, still RULES (and don't even let me get into WMP on the Mac).
  • miker71, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5QuickTime Pro? I have a cereal box, and I'm Captain Crunch!
  • hypercube33, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1I hate to flame but I've always hated QuickTime. And anything that can run on windows and linux can do this. But great.
  • SillyMamma, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3This totally rocks. I'm playing FLV in QuickTime. Thanks submitter!
  • Cputerace, on 10/12/2007, -8/+1If you want to know how to stop quicktime from dropping that annoying blue Q in your taskbar and from stealing your system resources even when its not being used, i have instructions on my site:

    http://digg.com/software/No_I_can_t_fix_your_computer_but_here_is_a_website_that_will_help
    • porkstacker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3OSX has no "taskbar". Did you happen to notice this Digg submission was filed under "Apple"??
  • mdawg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4For a great media player (that uses all the existing quicktime codecs on the mac, including Perian, if you install it), please take a look at NicePlayer. It is freeware, has borderless and fullscreen playback, and is extremely configurable.

    http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/23617
    • blackjack75, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Don't mod him down, NicePlayer is excellent. Instead of bitching about quicktime pro's price, just download this one and enjoy.
  • shyguy01, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3For all still wanting it (including me), coolosxapps has a download at:

    http://coolosxapps.net/2006/09/29/perian/

    Direct link: http://coolosxapps.net/download/Perian.component.zip
  • broknman, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Why would you want to handicap more formats?

    Pay for fullscreen? Puhhhlease
    • blackjack75, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Come on... only the quicktime *player* has a paid option. The API is quite powerful and used by many apps. The plugin is to be used by the API not Apple's stupid player.
  • zoltan, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1my question is why add all these features to quicktime to still not be able to fullscreen a video?
    • scelestus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It's called reading the comments BEFORE you post.
  • indices, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0another flv player for os x is flvThing:
    http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/22760
    macupdate page says os x 10.4 is required, but it works fine here using 10.3.9... freeware
  • The_Decryptor, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1It can play AVI, that's pretty good, a codec for a container format.

    And H.264?, I'm fairly sure QuickTime 7 can play that it's self (same with AAC)

    But, I'm all for the other format's it doesn't support.
    • chirs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2QuickTime 7 doesn't play all forms of h.264.
  • puner, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Can someone tell me why my quicktime for windows isnt playing avi's?
  • thunderer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Download mirrors for 0.50 are now up...
    http://perian.org/downloads.html
  • smokeyghetto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Dugg for all the extras especially the ability to play .flv via quicktime.

    FYI, Quicktime Pro is a must for video hobbyist (its not just full screen playback).
    I just exported a bunch of .flv files to other formats after installing perian with QTPro.

    Awesome........ Kudos to Perian.
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