For all Mac users Quick time is life line when it comes to media, whether to watch videos, listen to songs and many more. But as a standard player of Mac operating system it has got its own limitations. Well if you talk about one then it should be its incompatibility to play many media formats which are commonly available. Perian is add-on which will do the same for you. It’s an add-on which will power up Quick Time and enables it’s to play multiple formats some which a normal Quick Time won’t play. Some supported formats of Perian are as follows.
- Supports AVI, DIVX, FLV, MKV, GVI, VP6, and VFW formats.
- Supports video type MS-MPEG4 v1 & v2, DivX, 3ivx, H.264, Sorenson H.263, FLV/Sorenson Spark, FSV1, VP6, H263i, VP3, HuffYUV, FFVHuff, MPEG1 & MPEG2 Video, Fraps, Snow, NuppelVideo, Techsmith Screen Capture, DosBox Capture.
- Supports Audio Windows Media Audio v1 & v2, Flash ADPCM, Xiph Vorbis (in Matroska), and MPEG Layer I & II Audio, True Audio, DTS Coherent Acoustics, Nellymoser ASAO.
- Subtitles and many more.
Simply Perian converts your Quick Time into an all in one multimedia player.
Grab a copy here: Perian for Quick Time Player for Mac os.