It can crop, trim, add subtitles/watermarks/effects to your videos. It supports over 150 video & audio formats, including MOV, MP4, M4V, FLV, AVI, MPG, 3GP, MP3, M4A, WAV, WMA, AIFF, etc.įreely convert video or audio files between any two common formats.Įdit your videos with built-in video editor. Otherwise, it will screw up the replacement codecs.)Įasily play any video on Mac. component file by navigating to the /Library/QuickTime. Thus, Perian for QuickTime can be nice and convenient but not suitable for quality lover.(Please note that if you have got Perian installed on your Mac and now want to quit it, you have to delete the Perian. But it is not the perfect one for good quality, since it provides somewhat sub-par quality when compared with the method of directly getting the codes from the source. Perian for QuickTime is a good add-in for QuickTime. You'll find that QuickTime now can magically support more diverse video formats: AVI, DivX, DivX 3.11 alpha, XviD, MS-MPEG4 v3, 3ivX, MS-MPEG4 v2, MS-MPEG4 v1, Truemotion VP6, Sorenson H.263, FLV and formats that an AVI file contains-AC3, AAC Audio, VBR MP3, mpeg4, and h.264. Note: You are able to drag and drop the QuickTime components to the Library -> QuickTime folder you selected: your user's Library which is only for you or the top-level Library which is for everyone on Mac. Drag and drop the QuickTime components to the Library -> QuickTime folder you selected: your user's Library (which is only for you) or the top-level Library (which is for everyone on Mac).Īfter done, restart all programs that run QuickTime(iTunes, QuickTime Player, your browser, etc.), then you are done. It will automatically install and update all its components. Guide to Install and Run Perian for QuickTime on MacĪfter downloading the Package of Perian for QuickTime, open the disk image, double click Perian.prefPane icon. Note: The QuickTime components only enable you to play these videos via QuickTime on your Mac or PC, and if you would like to play common formats like AVI, WMV, FLV on iPod, iPad, iPhone or edit them with iMovie etc, you'll have to adopt UniConverter to convert the videos. Perian codec is open-source and you can download Perain here. It enables QuickTime to play many popular video formats that not supported by QuickTime natively, like WebM/VP8, MKV. Perian can be recognized as the Swiss-army knife of QuickTime, or saying as add-in of QuickTime.
Tutorial on Using Perian for Quicktime to Play Videos of Various Formats on Mac Best QuickTime Alternative to Play Any Video on Mac You can adopt a way to re-encode all your video files to H.264 to play them in QuickTime by adopting a professional video converting software. So, you may have some videos need to play in QuickTime, such as AVI format, while others require FLV Player or mPlayer or VideoLan Client. Maybe you also have some old WMV-encoded files you'd like to playback. The problem is that there are still many video files which are encoded in XviD and DivX. QuickTime, for example, only supports limited video formats like MPEG-4 and H.264. OSX 10.10 has QuickTime 10.If you are using a Mac, you may be frustrated when come across many kinds of semi-compatible video formats like FLV, MKV and AVI that makes enjoying movies a daily challenge. However, it still works with QuickTime 7.6.6." "Important Note: Perian is no longer under development and does not work with QuickTime 10 or above. And as I said, nothing has been deleted of the OSX structure, it is a brand new installed OSX by now. I am quite keen to get up and running, every help is apprechiated. Would it be possible for you to post some screenshots from your System Preferences and also from related folders in you Library folder? And it also worked, after conversion I could watch the movie, however, I don't want to convert each of my movies and also not into. avi files, QuickTime opened and started to convert them to. It seems well so far, but when I started. (I double checked in System preferences in the Perian extension it also must say "installed". Then I downloaded the latest version I could find, 1.2.3. Assuming I copied the plugin I checked under System Preferences for the Perian plugin, but it wasn't there.
Now under 10.10 Yosemite, no QuickTime folder exists for me in the Library, so I copied it there from my USB disc. Under 10.7 Lion I found a folder in the Library named Quicktime and in it was Perian. Now I am running a clean OS and basically I didn't do anything to QuickTime nor to Perian.
I moved and merged all files manually and it worked well. I made a USB bootable update, allowing me to delete my entire SSD in my Air, then installing Yosemite basically from scratch. With clean install I meant updating from 10.7 Lion to 10.10 Yosemite. Hello MisterMe, thanks very much for your information.