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Perian 1.1.1 just released
Perian, 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 freezing while loading subtitles with embedded fonts fixed
- Audio fixed for some older MKV files with AAC/FLAC
- Strange values in MKV chapters or video sizes are handled better
- Initial support for SAMI subtitles added
- Worked around a QuickTime bug (#5770288) causing frames to be lost during export
- New codecs: DosBox ZMBV, VP6+Alpha, Nellymoser ASAO FFmpeg:
- Crashing on PPC G3 fixed
- Fraps decoding artifacts fixed
Thanks, Chris!
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Steve said 5:09PM on 9-29-2008
I assume this plays nicely with Flip4Mac? Should I uninstall Flip4Mac and go with this instead?
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Jonathan Wise said 8:00PM on 9-29-2008
Keep Flip4Mac for WMV, ASF. Install Perian for everything else under the sun.
And yes, they co-exist without issue...
scott said 5:13PM on 9-29-2008
What is up with TUAW today? First the article on the three most basic terminal commands that are useless if that's all you know, and now release notes for a program that gets practically no other description than it's name? Seriously lame.
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bob said 6:13PM on 9-29-2008
In all fairness it does say 'quicktime plug in' and 'mkv support' and 'avi support', just fill in the blanks.
JKT said 9:02PM on 9-29-2008
This article was very useful to me. I use Perian and didn't know there'd been an update. Maybe it's you who has the problem, not TUAW or the rest of us.
Rauz said 5:17PM on 9-29-2008
Steve: They play nice together, go ahead and install them both.
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dagamer34 said 5:37PM on 9-29-2008
Naruto finally works. Yay.
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bundle said 1:29AM on 9-30-2008
Just a tip re: anamorphic videos not playing properly (stretched or squished) in QT: if this happens, you can hold opt-shift while resizing the QT window to force QT not to honor the current aspect ratio. This way you can compensate (by eye, of course) for stretched or squished video.
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Tom said 6:56AM on 9-30-2008
Does it fix the subtitles bug in Front Row?
When you play a video in Front Row with SRT subtitles present, the screen goes black (ever since Leopard 10.5) while sound continues.
VideoDrive (www.aroona.net) has a nice workaround for this bug, but it would still be cool if it was entirely fixed.
Ebel3003 said 5:54PM on 9-29-2008
It's great to see Perian continuing to move forward as the definitive choice for most codecs on the Mac. The momentary freezes experienced with embedded fonts are gone and I'm a happy camper.
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Unknown said 6:02PM on 9-29-2008
>> Worked around a QuickTime bug (#5770288) causing frames to be lost during export
Not sure if this is the iDVD frame-skipping issues I experienced earlier. When you have Perian installed and create a DVD from iDVD, the result disk is "choppy" when played back. Uninstalling perian solved it.
But it's a pain to not have perian installed...
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Graham said 6:30PM on 9-29-2008
Unknown, likely so. It could certainly cause it.
J. said 6:16PM on 9-29-2008
Perian seemed like a great idea until I used it. I noticed my HD videos were dropping frames like crazy. It turns out that Perian uses its own H.264 codec which does not utilize multiple processors or the GPU like QuickTime. So I went from perfect playback to a stuttering mess. Almost all the other codecs it supports are things I never come across with anymore. So watch out.
I find that QuickTime with Flip4Mac and VLC gets the job done now just fine.
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Jesse said 4:24PM on 10-01-2008
Wait, so does Perian's H.264 codec take over even for straight up H.264 encoded .mov files? If so, why don't they just let quicktime take care of H.264 if quicktime is better at decoding and just have Perian handle H.264 wrapped in .MKV or whatever + all the rest of the odd-ball codec.
James said 8:43PM on 9-29-2008
This is one of those things I install on every new machine, right after DefaultFolder and Firefox.
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David Hildreth said 9:15PM on 9-29-2008
VP-6 + ALPHA :D
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Samuel said 10:32PM on 9-29-2008
HEY DOSBOX videos work in Quicktime now!!!! yipeee!!!
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Mike said 10:24AM on 9-30-2008
I get scared installing new versions of things like Perian since everything I do with it right now works, but maybe I'll check this out... thanks for the tip TUAW.
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Chris Forsythe said 2:56PM on 9-30-2008
We keep older versions available for download, just not advertised on the website. You can change the download url from 1.1.1 to 1.1, and it should download just fine.