Perian
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| developer | Perian team |
| Current version | 1.2.3 (July 23, 2011) |
| operating system | Mac OS |
| category | Video compression |
| License | LGPL ( Free Software ) |
| German speaking | No |
| perian.org | |
Perian is a free component for Apple's QuickTime Framework for displaying common video formats, which enables QuickTime-based programs to play back numerous other codecs such as DivX, Xvid or AC3 Audio, and can therefore be viewed as analogous to ffdshow . The libavcodec library of the popular FFmpeg project is used for decoding .
The development of the software was stopped in May 2012. Under OS X Mavericks it only works when using the "Quicktime 7 Player", which Apple once made available for free download for OS X Snow Leopard and which also runs under the current system.
Supported video formats
Perian supports the container formats AVI , Flash Video , Matroska , DivX Media Format and VP6 as well as a variety of video codecs:
- MS-MPEG4 v1, v2 and v3
- MPEG-1
- MPEG2
- DivX
- 3ivx
- Xvid
- H.264
- Sorenson H.263
- Flash Video FLV Sorenson Spark
- FSV1
- Truemotion VP6
- H.263i
- VP3
- HuffYUV
- FFVHuff
- Fraps
- Snow
- NuppelVideo
- Techsmith Screen Capture
- DosBox Capture
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ "Swiss Army knife for QuickTime" Perian turning off the lights , arstechnica.com, accessed August 7, 2012