Perian is a free, open source QuickTime component that adds native support for many popular video formats.

Perian enables QuickTime application support for additional Media Types:

• AVI, FLV, and MKV file formats
• MS-MPEG4 v1 & v2, DivX, 3ivX, H.264, FLV1, FSV1, VP6, H263I, VP3, HuffYUV, FFVHuff, MPEG1 & MPEG2 Video, Fraps, Windows Media Audio v1 & v2, Flash ADPCM, Xiph Vorbis (in Matroska), MPEG Layer II Audio
• AVI support for: AAC, AC3 Audio, H.264, MPEG4, and VBR MP3
• Subtitle support for SSA and SRT

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Download Perian 1.1

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4.7 because 10.3 makes the iceweasel cower in fear.

Installation: Open the disk image and double click the Perian.prefPane icon.

Happy users should consider donations to encourage futher development:

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The Perian Project provides a Mac OS X QuickTime component wrapper for several libraries:

• libavcodec from the ffmpeg project along with code from the old FFusion component
• libavformat from the ffmpeg project along with AVIImporter.component
• libmatroska with matroska-qt.component
• liba52 with A52Codec.component

Perian enables QuickTime-based playback tools access to more file formats and codecs. The code is available under the LGPL.

Download Perian 1.1 Source

We offer several ways to communicate and collaborate:

• Software Configuration and Project Management to browse source and create tickets.
• Subversion Repository to checkout source and commit changes.
• Internet Relay Chat to say hello and introduce yourself.
• Mailing List to discuss features and ask questions.

Please enjoy our screencasts of Perian in action!

How to download and install Perian, then clean up the remaining disk image:

How to download a Flash Video file from YouTube and open with QuickTime Player:

We are proud to offer links to related software in the community:

• Perian can be used with QuickTime Player, NicePlayer, and QTAmateur to name a few
• Windows Media® is unsupported, use the Flip4Mac WMV Components instead
• The internet TV platform Democracy includes Perian

The Perian Project would like to thank:

• Jérôme Cornet of FFusion and Christoph Nägeli of XviD_Codec for the AviImporter.
• FFmpeg for providing such a rich audio/video codec library.
• Dag Ågren and the Mozilla Foundation for the universal Charset Detector.
• Matroska for the audio/video container libraries.
• Perian software downloads are provided by Cachefly, Thanks!

Perian Project Team:

• System Administration by Graham Booker
• Project Management by Chris Forsythe
• Component Development by David Conrad, Alexander Strange, Augie Fackler, Allan Hsu, and Graham Booker
• Web Development by Sky Huvard

Please contact the Perian Project Team via the mailing list, bug report system, or forum.

Installation and Removal:

Please consider removing obsolete QuickTime Components: FFusion, Xvid Delegate, 3ivX, DivX, XviD, msmpeg4v1, msmpeg4v2, AviImporter, EX_M4S2, and Casio AVI Importer

How do I remove Perian?
Open the System Preferences. Select the Perian pane and 'Remove.' Now 'Show All' preference panes, control-click the Perian pane and 'Remove "Perian" Preference Pane.'

Frequently Asked Questions:

Why does it take so long for MKV to load?
The entire movie must be loaded into QuickTime.

Problems and Feature Requests:

Create a bug report for an enhancement request or bug fix.

Join the mailing list to discuss features and ask questions.

Visit the forum to follow happenings in the community.

Version History: