Perian 1.0 (actually) released
Posted by Derik DeLong | Tuesday, July 03, 2007 8:04 AM PT
Quicktime may play its own media and industry standard MPEG files well, but when it comes to other formats and codecs, it’s a little lacking. It’s so lacking that most users end up installing VLC at some point. The other way to deal with the varying types of movies is to install the wonderful Perian which just hit version 1.0. Eagle eyed software trackers may have noticed that MacUpdate prematurely posted that it was available even though it was only a beta. The final version has arrived.
The new version features:
- Added support for Matroska/mkv
- Integrated a52codec
- Added subtitle support
- Added support for .gvi (avi wrapper from Google Video)
- Changed distribution to a Preference Pane in order to make installation simpler and configuration possible in the long term.
- Changed installation directory from /Library/QuickTime to ~/Library/QuickTime.
- Added support for Windows Media Audio in AVI
- Added support for MPEG-1 layer 2 audio
- Added support for the ADPCM audio codec in FLV
- Added Vorbis decoder
- Added support for MPEG-1/2 video in AVI/MKV
- Faster opening of AVI files
- High profile H.264 support
- Full MPEG-4 video support in .mp4
- Altivec & SSE2 colorspace conversion
- And more
I’m a particular fan of the new preference pane. Given it’s a free download, I recommend getting it now. You never know when you might need it.
