Perian 1.1 just released
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — Filed under: SoftwarePerian, the ultimate QuickTime plug-in, was just updated to version 1.1.1. Some of the changes in this version include: H.264 in AVI fixed Some anamorphic AVI files are now supported Performance problems due to PIC fixed with Xcode 3.1 Incorrect frame skipping on H.264 intra frames fixed Better character set detection The update checker is now much more polite Several parsing and rendering bugs with subtitles fixed Player ...

Software Updates and New Releases for Week Ending 2008-10-04
TheAppleBlog — ... Perian - 1.1.1 - The self-dubbed “Swiss-Army knife for QuickTime” releases a two-dot update that I would have missed since the “update” button in the PrefPane did not work (and I just happened to hit their site from the other button in the PrefPane). This minor update fixes a problem with H.264 in AVI files, corrects a frame skipping issue, adds some codecs and incorporates a few additional bug fixes and feature tweaks. [10.4/10.5; Intel/PPC] Free! ...

QuickTIme 7.5.5: H.264 playback stutters
MacFixIt — ... movies play fine in VLC and other players that do not rely on QuickTime. In addition, users have tried changing encoding settings, such as keyframes, bit rate, and quality settings, but still experience the problem. This particular issue is related to an incompatibility with the Perian plugin that many users install to enhance their QuickTime installation by adding support for various popular video formats not native to QuickTime. Fixes: Update Perian The version 1.1.1 update for Perian is available here. While users have updated the plug-in, for some the stuttering came ...

Perian 1.1.2 released, fixes updating
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — ... Last night, Perian was updated to version 1.1.2. If you need to extend the capabilities of QuickTime, the free Perian plugin allows ...

AVCHD + Perian = Sad Final Cut
MacUser — ... that details a slightly less expensive solution to the problem: uninstall Perian, the open source component that gives QuickTime native support for a host of video formats, and Final Cut will stop crashing when it tries to import AVCHD footage. I imagine that is a much more workable solution for most folks. ...

Review: Pentax Optio A40 point-and-shoot camera
Macworld — ... , or you can download Perian and play the movies in QuickTime. To import the DivX videos into iMovie ‘08, you must convert the video into a compatible format using the free ...

Macworld Buying Guides: Point-and-shoot cameras
Macworld — ... require a QuickTime software plug-in before you can watch the video. Our favorite point-and-shoot cameras The Samsung NV11 ( [image] ) impresses with its ability to produce superior color quality that’s rarely seen in a point-and-shoot camera. Mix in superb battery life, a nice selection of shooting modes and manual controls, and an easy-to-use interface, and you have a great camera to take with you wherever you go. You will need to install the DivX Player for Mac or the Perian QuickTime plug-in if you want to play the NV11's recorded video.  Read our full ...

Set QuickTime Player icons for non-standard file types
MacOSXHints.com — I found this great QuickTime component package callled Perian that includes codecs for pretty much everything VLC does, thus making it possible to use QuickTime Player for all my media. The problem with Perian is that files with extensions like MKV or DIVX aren't given a preview or icon, even though they open nicely from the Finder. The solution is to add those extensions to QuikTime's plist, which will associate a nice QuickTime 'Movie' icon for such files. Here's how: In the Applications folder, Control-click on QuickTime Player and choose Show Package Contents from the pop-up ...

Perian 1.1.3 now available, provides lots of fixes
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — ... Apple's decoder now handles Baseline/Main Profile H.264 Fix inconsistent importing for multi-channel audio Reduced memory usage for packed streams Added sanity checks on all preferences Enabled hack to show subtitles in Front Row Fixed negative values in SSA \frz tag Fixed VSFilter bug-compatibility for \an You can learn more about Perian, and download the new update, by visiting the Perian.org website. TUAWPerian 1.1.3 now available, provides lots of fixes ...

More on extracting audio from video
Macworld — ... add-on to download Flash videos. Once you have those videos you can open them in QuickTime Player Pro, extract the audio, and then convert that audio track to an AIFF file that you can bring into iTunes. If QuickTime Player appears to be choking on your Flash files, download and install Perian , a free QuickTime component that allows QuickTime to play a host of files it doesn’t natively support. Before engaging in this kind of activity, be aware that some material on sites such as YouTube is copyrighted, meaning that you may not have the right to download and convert it.

At Home With the New Mac Mini: My Setup and Impressions
TheAppleBlog — ... The basics included the latest version of Perian, the all-in-one codec solution for Quicktime, and ...

Review: Creative Labs Vado HD pocket camcorder
Macworld — ... camcorders, the Vado’s editing software is planted directly on the camera—plug in the camera and install it on your Windows PC. That’s right, Windows PC . Regrettably, unlike with Pure Digital’s FlipShare software, the Vado’s Creative Vado Central editing and sharing software is for Windows only. Given that Mac users will invariably employ iMovie to edit their video, this isn’t a terrible loss. Note, however, that in order to use the Vado HD on a Mac you need to install the free Perian QuickTime plug-in , as the Vado’s native encoding format isn’t compatible with QuickTime. ...

Burn an AVI movie with subtitles to a DVD in one step
MacOSXHints.com — ... You can save yourself a lot of time by installing the excellent Perian QuickTime plug-in. If you open a .avi (or .mkv for that matter) in QuickTime, Quick Look, or any other program that will call the Perian codec through QuickTime -- and you have a subtitle file present in the same folder as the .avi file -- you'll see that Perian will show the subtitles automatically. ...

Friday Favorite: Transcriva
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — Filed under: Software, Features, Productivity, Friday Favorite If you have a photographic memory, you may recall an article I wrote for TUAW about a year ago describing how to use AppleScript to make it easier to transcribe QuickTime movies and audio. In the comments for that piece, a program was pointed out to me (thanks imnotjesus) which has become a valuable tool in my toolbox. Transcriva is a single-purpose program for transcribing video and audio clips with a rich set of features certain to make your life easier. If you're doing professional ...

FLV support in Quicktime X...iPhone too?
9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence — According to a blog called Cateto, Apple's Quicktime X in Snow Leopard will play Flash FLV movies...again.  Quicktime supported FLV movies up until 2007.  After that, you needed Perian to play FLVs and SWFs in Quicktime.  No longer. Some have insinuated that this might lead to flash on iPhone.  We'd be hopeful, but that is a big stretch.  FLV support only means that Quicktime will play H.264 video in a .FLV wrapper, not that all of the complex Flash interactivity will be built in as well. ...

Review: VideoDrive 1.9.6.03
Macworld — by Jeff Carlson , Macworld.com [ Editor’s note: The following review is part of Macworld’s GemFest 2009 series. Every day until the end of June 2009, the Macworld staff will use the Mac Gems blog to briefly cover a favorite free or low-cost program. Visit the Mac Gems homepage for a list of past Mac Gems. ] If you buy or rent movies from the iTunes Store, you’re already using iTunes as your preferred media organizer and player, especially if iTunes is acting as the gateway to an iPod, iPhone, or Apple TV. But iTunes isn’t the only source for digital video--perhaps, for ...

Mac 911 Lightning Round
Macworld — ... . While you’re at it, grab a copy of the also-free Perian QuickTime component . It also allows QuickTime and QuickTime-compatible applications to play unsupported file types. Issue: While working out, John Boyd wants to watch episodes of ...

10 Awesome FREE Plug-ins for OS X
Mac|Life — ... for MS-MPEG4 v1 & v2, DivX, 3ivx, H.264, Sorenson H.263, FLV/Sorenson Spark, FSV1, VP6, H263i, VP3, HuffYUV, FFVHuff, MPEG1 & MPEG2 Video, Fraps, Snow, NuppelVideo, Techsmith Screen Capture, DosBox Capture, all within QuickTime. Yeah, we didn’t know there was a "Fraps" file format either. Technically, you could just download VLC player, but QuickTime integrates much better with other OS X applications, and it's set to be the default media player, anyways. Perian can be downloaded here .>>Flip4Mac [image] Apparently (and surprisingly) there are still a lot of people using ...

VLC 1.0.0 released
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — ... is an alternative media player for Mac, Windows and Linux that handles a wide variety of media file formats without requiring additional software (like Perian) to be installed on your system. It can also be used as a server to stream video on higher-bandwidth networks. ...

VideoLAN finally hits 1.0
9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence — It isn't just GMail.  Quicktime w/Perian alternative VideoLAN just came out of beta today.  VLC offers you a way to watch just about any video out there on the net.  It also allows you to watch DVDs without those pesky region coding as well as an important Handbrake helper.      ...

VLC 1.0 Goldeneye Released
TheAppleBlog — ... , which means it supports a wider variety of codecs and file formats than your typical QuickTime or Windows Media Player can handle, such as MKV, Ogg, or FLAC. (There are, of course, alternatives, such as Perian and other plugins to add additional support to QuickTime, but VLC has some more tricks up its sleeve.) ...

The “Other” System Preferences
TheAppleBlog — ... Perian: “The siwss-army knife for QuickTime,” Perian adds support for a metric crap-ton of different video codecs and enclosures to QuickTime. Anytime someone tells me they can’t open a video, this is the first place I send them. ...

Review: Genius G-Shot HD520 pocket HD camcorder
Macworld — ... video. To test the G-Shot for image quality, we shot video outside in bright sunlight, inside in a sunlit room, and inside at night under lamplight. We also checked skin tones by filming a human subject. The G-Shot produced very nice indoor skin tones and some good detail, but outdoors under bright sunlight the videos had too much contrast, with blown-out whites and murky shadows. And the G-Shot’s clips were jaggy. Videos are saved in H.264 but as .AVI files, so you’ll need the free Perian QuickTime plug-in to view the files on your Mac and to use them in iMovie. All digital ...

There’s a Bounty On Your Mac: 43 Cents Per Malware Infection
TheAppleBlog — ... Focus on the Mac platform might be growing for online criminals, but most malware plots still require you to make the first move. To help protect yourself from fake and harmful codecs, use Perian and ...

VideoLAN updated to 64-Bit support, but you might want to hold off...
9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence — ... , the multi-purpose, cross platform, open source video encoder/decoder was updated this week to a 64-bit version 1.02 (yes we're aware of Perian).  While you shouldn't expect to see too much speed improvement or CPU optimization from the new code, the upgrade does improve overall performance and plugs a few security holes. Note from the site: ...

Best alternative to Visual Hub?
Chicago Mac/PC Support — ... Another option is Perian but has known issues with Video/Audio sync when exporting to Flash files.  Read more about it ...

69 Awesomely Free Snow Leopard Compatible Apps
Mac|Life —   The word free gets thrown around quite a lot lately. Cell phone carriers offer "free" phones that are tethered to a two-year contract. Those free rooms in Vegas come at the price of three hours of your life spent ...

50 Common Mac Problems Solved
Mac|Life — We present the Ultimate Mac Troubleshooting Guide, so you can banish the peskiest problems once and for all.   ...

Download YouTube Videos to Your iPod
Switched — Download YouTube, and similarly Flash-based, videos for use on your iPod. Using Firefox, install the free VideoDownloader extension. Then download and install the free Perian codec for Quicktime from Perian.org. Videos ending in .flv will download to your desktop, ...

iTunes Power Tips Every Mac Owner Should Know
Mac|Life — Your quick-and-dirty guide to the world's most popular digital media app.   It’s been more than eight years since Apple released the first version of iTunes. And although it’s expanded to incorporate many smart features since its January 2001 debut, it still looks remarkably similar to the way it did when it first appeared, running on OS 9. Back then it was just a jukebox, but over the years came enhancements like CD burning, the iPod, smart playlists, the iTunes Store, video support, and, most recently, the iPhone. Apple has gradually turned ...