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CineXPlayerHD plays just about any video format on your iPad

by Mel Martin (Oct 24th, 2012)

CineXPlayerHD is a jack-of-all-trades iPad app (US$3.99) that can play just about any video format you throw at it. This latest version, 3.0, adds playback of the popular MKV format on the iPad 2 and above. The app supports 720P HD playback, and also Dolby Digital Plus with support for 5.1 ...

Perian 1.1.2 released, fixes updating

by Cory Bohon (Oct 21st, 2008)

Last night, Perian was updated to version 1.1.2. If you need to extend the capabilities of QuickTime, the free Perian plugin allows QuickTime to play back all kinds of popular video formats (.AVI, .MKV, .FLV and more). It's a handy utility for anyone who watches a lot of video on their Mac. Here's ...

Perian - play most video formats in QuickTime for free

by David Chartier (Sep 30th, 2006)

The veritable ocean of available video formats can often instigate a confusing and frustrating adventure in hunting for plugins and explaining to grandma why that DivX email forward she received plays the audio, but not the video. Fortunately, instead of bookmarking the plethora of codec download ...

Splitting Large AVI and DivX Files

by Damien Barrett (Mar 10th, 2006)

So you've got a lot of large AVI and/or DivX files lying around. Perhaps you've decided to rip all your DVD's to DivX format to create a media center with your new Intel Mac mini. But because ripping takes a lot of time and you don't trust HD's, you also want to back up the ripped movies using that ...