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What is Perian?
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: South Korea
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What is Perian? Why does it sometimes fail when I open iTunes? Why should I update it?
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Moderator  Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Polwaristan
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From the About Perian pref pane:
Perian aims at providing a single package to provide all your playback needs. It is a collection of QuickTime components incorporating several libraries:
• libavcodec, from the ffmpeg project, along with code from the old FFusion component:
• MS-MPEG4 v1 & v2
• DivX
• 3ivX
• H.264
• FLV1
• FSV1
• VP6
• H263I
• VP3
• HuffYUV
• ffvhuff
• MPEG-1 & 2 video
• FRAPS
• Windows Media Audio v1 & v2
• Flash ADPCM
• Xiph Vorbis (in Matroska)
• MPEG Layer II Audio
• libavformat, from the ffmpeg project. along with AVIImporter.component:
• AVI file format
• FLV file format
• libmatroska, along with matroska-qt.component:
• MKV file format
• Subtitle parsing
• SSA
• SRT
• liba52, via A52Codec
• AC3 audio
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: San Diego, CA, USA
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By the way, it's something you (or another user of your computer) would have installed. Perian doesn't come with the system or anything.
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Chuck
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"Instead of either 'multi-talented' or 'multitalented' use 'bisexual'."
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Yokohama, Japan
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Toronto, ON
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wataru >> some people just want an explanation from their peers... like it or not, that means members of the macnn community we all use and love.
Tiresias >> Perian is basically a bundle of video codecs that allow you to play different types of video file. I personally like it b/c with this one install I can watch most of the video types I want to.
On the same note though, VLC supports just about every type of audio and video, it just has an ugly UI. Try out VLC if you're looking for a video player to play everything.
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