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Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The Perian web site released a note today that a final version was coming soon, with support for the plug-in ...

The third-party video codec pack for QuickTime "Perian" has been updated to version 1.2.1, which adds support for more codecs and fix a number of bugs that caused crashes. The application is a popular ...

There's a mantra here at the Ars Orbiting HQ when staffers and freelancers invariably switch from whatever to the Mac, and then find themselves stuck when it comes to watching their porn video ...

Perian calls itself “the Swiss Army knife for QuickTime,” a description that’s pretty much spot-on. Technically, Perian is a “QuickTime component” and it’s a preference pane rather than an application ...

Perian, a free open-source plug-in that enables QuickTime support for a wide variety of video formats, has been updated with additional video format compatibility and fixes. Version 1.2.2 of Perian ...

The developers of Perian, the free and extremely popular video format extender for QuickTime, have announced that they are ceasing work on the project. In a statement on the project’s Web site, the ...

It is a plug-in which can increase various formats that can be played back on Mac OS X's QuickTime in various ways. DivX, XviD, FLV, AVI, MS-MPEG4 v1, MS-MPEG4 v2, MS-MPEG4 v3, DivX 3.11 alpha, 3ivX, ...

Dubbed the “Swiss-army knife for QuickTime,” open source QuickTime component Perian is finally closing down shop. The team of the six-year-old project announced the news today on their website and ...

Over the years, Apple’s QuickTime software has become more and more versatile, supporting many more formats today than it did just a few years ago. And thanks to Telestream’s now-free Flip4Mac plug-in ...