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1. #VIDEO PLAYERS FOR MAC QUICKTIME VLC MAC OS X#
2. #VIDEO PLAYERS FOR MAC QUICKTIME VLC INSTALL#
3. #VIDEO PLAYERS FOR MAC QUICKTIME VLC UPDATE#

#VIDEO PLAYERS FOR MAC QUICKTIME VLC MAC OS X#

The Alternatives - It is quite likely that Perian will continue to function under releases of Mac OS X for the near future, but it isn’t guaranteed, and so users like me, who have become dependent upon Perian to handle playback of movies not Apple-approved, will be looking for alternatives. Time, they say, to move on to new projects the source code will remain available for others to improve, but the existing development team won’t be working on it. The Perian people are making no promises, other than that they won’t be supporting Perian any longer. Perian may, they say, continue to function under Apple’s forthcoming OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, or it may not.

#VIDEO PLAYERS FOR MAC QUICKTIME VLC UPDATE#

The developers have announced that support will cease 90 days after the upcoming final update to Perian. Instead, it simply operates in the background, quietly and transparently enabling QuickTime Player to play video formats not deemed worthy by Apple.īut Perian’s days are numbered. Installed as a preference pane, Perian offers little in the way of configurable options. This is where Perian comes - or, rather, came - in.

mkv files, which are common on the Internet, not to mention a host of more unusual formats. Unfortunately, QuickTime Player throws its hands up in despair when asked to play. Out of the box, a Mac can play video through Apple’s QuickTime Player, which handles.

#VIDEO PLAYERS FOR MAC QUICKTIME VLC INSTALL#

What Perian Does - Described by its developers as a Swiss Army knife of video playback, Perian has long been among the first pieces of software I install on a new Mac. In a statement on the project’s Web site, the developers have said that it’s time to move on, their goal of making video content playback easier on the Mac having been met. The developers of Perian, the free and extremely popular video format extender for QuickTime, have announced that they are ceasing work on the project.