Perian component software#
Perian component tv#

One continuation based on the source code is actively maintained but does not support QuickTime for OS X Mavericks or later. First released in 2006, Perian is a component for Apple’s QuickTime software that allows for the playback of many popular video file formats, including DivX, AVI, MKV, and VP6. They indicated that Perian's source code would be posted online for any developer who wanted to continue with the project.

Perian component tv#

The internet TV platform Miro and Airport Express streaming app Airfoil include Perian. The Flip4Mac (Windows Media) and XiphQT (Ogg) components add support for some formats not included in Perian. In the announcement, they recommended that users look to other products, such as Niceplayer, VLC or MPlayer OS X. Perian can be used with all QuickTime-supporting apps, including QuickTime Player, NicePlayer, and QTAmateur.

On, the Perian project managers announced on their website that they are shutting down support for the project. If you want to attempt to build Perian, you will first need clone the aforementioned repositories as well and put all in the same directory. It has been featured as the 'Download of the Day' on Lifehacker, as well as on several popular blogs including It was a joint development of several earlier open source components based on the multiplatform FFmpeg project's libavcodec and libavformat, as well as liba52 and libmatroska. Perian is a free, open source, QuickTime component that supports many popular media types, including AVI, DivX. Perian is a discontinued open-source QuickTime component that enabled Apple Inc.’s QuickTime to play several popular video formats not supported natively by QuickTime on macOS. Perian is an open-source QuickTime component that enabled Apple Inc.s QuickTime to play several popular video formats not supported natively by QuickTime.